Publication date: Jun 25, 2025
Telepsychiatry is increasingly integral to psychiatric practice. However, few reviews have examined the concordance between assessments conducted in telepsychiatric and face-to-face settings. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the agreement between telepsychiatric and face-to-face settings in the diagnosis and symptom assessment of various psychiatric disorders. A literature search was conducted using MEDLINE/PubMed, Cochrane Library, Scopus, EMBASE, CINAHL, and PsycINFO. Studies evaluating the concordance between telepsychiatric and face-to-face settings in the diagnosis and symptom assessment of various psychiatric disorders were included and analyzed. Of the 6875 studies in the initial search, 22 studies that met the inclusion criteria were included in the analyses. The diagnostic concordance for 16 psychiatric disorders was “almost perfect” between the two settings (N = 16, n = 848, Cohen’s _705 = 0. 824, confidence interval [CI] = 0. 466 to 0. 950, P
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Initial | concordance |
| Library | diagnostic assessment |
| Psychiatry | meta‐analysis |
| Telepsychiatry | symptom assessment |
| telepsychiatry |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | psychiatric disorders |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Methionine |