TY - JOUR
T1 - Structural Racism and Lessons Not Heard
T2 - A Rapid Review of the Telepsychiatry Literature During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
AU - Brown, Tashalee R.
AU - Xu, Kevin Y.
AU - Glowinski, Anne L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Objective: To assess the extent to which articles examining telepsychiatry after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic provided racial and sociodemographic characteristics for people receiving audiovisual (video) versus audio-only telepsychiatry. Data Sources, Study Selection, and Data Extraction: We employed the keyword telepsychiatry and screened all peer-reviewed articles in PubMed published from March 1, 2020, until November 23, 2022, prior to the federal government’s announcement of the impending end to the COVID-19 publichealth emergency. We retrieved and reviewed the full-text articles of 553 results for potential inclusion, of which 266 were original research articles. Results: We found that 106 of 553 articles had any mention of differences between audio-only and audiovisual telepsychiatry. Twenty-nine of 553 articles described potential socioeconomic differences in the distribution of people receiving audio-only versus audiovisual telepsychiatry, and 20 of 553 described potential racial/ethnic differences. Among research articles, most (213/266) did not differentiate between videoconferencing and audio-only/telephone-based telehealth services. A total of 4 research articles provided racial and sociodemographic characteristics of individuals who received audio-only versus audiovisual telepsychiatry services during the COVID-19 pandemic, all of which were conducted in relatively small regional samples that could not be generalized to the US as a whole. Conclusions: Overall, this analysis underscores that empirical data are lacking on racial and sociodemographic distribution of audio-only versus audiovisual telepsychiatry services since the COVID-19 pandemic.
AB - Objective: To assess the extent to which articles examining telepsychiatry after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic provided racial and sociodemographic characteristics for people receiving audiovisual (video) versus audio-only telepsychiatry. Data Sources, Study Selection, and Data Extraction: We employed the keyword telepsychiatry and screened all peer-reviewed articles in PubMed published from March 1, 2020, until November 23, 2022, prior to the federal government’s announcement of the impending end to the COVID-19 publichealth emergency. We retrieved and reviewed the full-text articles of 553 results for potential inclusion, of which 266 were original research articles. Results: We found that 106 of 553 articles had any mention of differences between audio-only and audiovisual telepsychiatry. Twenty-nine of 553 articles described potential socioeconomic differences in the distribution of people receiving audio-only versus audiovisual telepsychiatry, and 20 of 553 described potential racial/ethnic differences. Among research articles, most (213/266) did not differentiate between videoconferencing and audio-only/telephone-based telehealth services. A total of 4 research articles provided racial and sociodemographic characteristics of individuals who received audio-only versus audiovisual telepsychiatry services during the COVID-19 pandemic, all of which were conducted in relatively small regional samples that could not be generalized to the US as a whole. Conclusions: Overall, this analysis underscores that empirical data are lacking on racial and sociodemographic distribution of audio-only versus audiovisual telepsychiatry services since the COVID-19 pandemic.
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U2 - 10.4088/PCC.23r03563
DO - 10.4088/PCC.23r03563
M3 - Review article
C2 - 37923550
AN - SCOPUS:85176506728
SN - 2155-7772
VL - 25
JO - The primary care companion for CNS disorders
JF - The primary care companion for CNS disorders
IS - 6
M1 - 23r03563
ER -