E-mental health in Germany — what is the current use and what are experiences of different types of health care providers for patients with mental illnesses?

Table 6 Binary logistic regression of ever having recommended an e-mental health intervention

Predictor variable	Odds Ratio	95% CI lower bound	95% CI upper bound	p
Age	1.009	0.982	1.036	0.523
Gender (ref: Female)
Male	0.541	0.319	0.918	0.023
Professional group (ref: GPs)
Specialist doctors	7.486	3.430	16.340	< 0.001
Psychotherapists	1.337	0.563	3.175	0.511
Clinicians	4.604	1.959	10.822	< 0.001
Patient-communication via internet (ref: No)
Yes	2.545	1.427	4.540	0.002
Video consultation (ref: Never)
Rare	2.367	1.253	4.473	0.008
Sometimes	2.375	1.121	5.031	0.024
Often	1.796	0.626	5.155	0.276

Notes. Binary logistic regression with ‘ever recommended an e-mental health intervention’ as outcome variable and age, gender, professional group, patient-communication via internet, and video-consultation as predictor variables. Since only few participants used video-consultation very often, we subsumed participants who used video-consultation often and very often into one group
CI confidence interval, GPs general practitioners; specialist doctors include psychiatric, psychosomatic, and neurological specialists from outpatient care, clinicians were recruited from psychiatric and psychosomatic inpatient care

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