Applying Telehealth interventions for depression in nursing care
Bendzelova, Veronika (2017)
Bendzelova, Veronika
Yrkeshögskolan Arcada
2017
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2017121321117
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2017121321117
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Depression is a mental illness with disabling functional, social and physical impacts affecting over 300 million people globally. Despite there are known, effective treatments for depression, only about half of those affected receive such treatments. The major barriers to-wards receiving needed care are limited access and underdiagnoses. Telehealth offers numerous benefits that may overcome some of these barriers. One aim of this study was to provide nursing professionals with information about depression and Telehealth interventions as a treatment possibility; the second aim is to identify the role of nurse in depression treatment in using the Telehealth interventions. The study was performed as a literature re-view with inductive content analysis. Data was acquired from reliable databases such as EBSCO, Medscape and Google scholar. Together, 12 articles were selected for the further analysis. Due to limitation in number of articles available, author have included articles studying several different Telehealth tools for depression treatment. As the foundation for answering the research questions posed in this study Chronic care model was applied. This study answered the question about the effectiveness of Telehealth interventions when treating depression and provided information about the benefits and challenges related to these interventions. According to the findings, Telehealth interventions had effect on depression leading to reduction in depressive symptoms. The findings further provided valuable information about how can be Telehealth tools integrated into existing nursing practice with regard to improve outcomes depression care. Nurses’ role in encouraging patient engagement, supporting self-management and providing psychoeducation seems to be essential. The results of this study will help nurses working with depressed patients by giving them more tools to treat depression.