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KMID : 0897520020070010021
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Journal of Korean Association of Social Psychiatry
2002 Volume.7 No. 1 p.21 ~ p.26
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A Study on Psychiatric Intervention in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry via Internet
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Shin Jee-Yong
Kwack Young-Sook
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Abstract
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The internet-mediated psychiatric intervention in child and adolescent psychiatry will be used increasingly for wideranging concerns of the general population in the area of mental health and psychiatric care as a social service. This study is designed to explore the characteristics of cyber hospital visitors, main problems(the reasons for contacts), contents of the intervention, and visitors’ responses to the intervention. We have analyzed the information concerning questions and answers about 154 child and adolescent cases in an internet hospital. Inquiries of habits or behaviors are most common problems. The most common reason for the visitors’ contacts in the order of frequency is to find management or treatment strategies, to improve parenting skills and to find out the nature of the problem. The contents of the intervention, in the order of frequency, are providing psychiatric information, educating parents, giving them advice to visit a child and adolescent psychiatrist, recommending more observation and re-counselling and others. The effect of the service was evaluated by the degree of the visitors’ satisfaction with the contents of the intervention, and the visitors’ compliance with the recommendations. The results of this study suggest that the psychiatric intervention via the Internet can be useful as the first-line intervention and also useful in the preventive aspect and in supplementing the limitations associated with the classical face-to-face interviews with doctors.
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KEYWORD
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Psychiatric intervention, Internet, E-mail therapy, Child and adolescent psychiatry
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