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Consumer satisfaction with telemedicine child psychiatry consultation in rural Kentucky

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.11.1464

Forty-three rural Kentucky families who obtained child psychiatry consultation during the initial eight months of the University of Kentucky's telemedicine program completed questionnaires assessing their satisfaction with telemedicine. Respondents were 46 parents and nine children. All respondents reported that they were very satisfied with the consultation; all of the children and 98 percent of the parents reported that they were as satisfied with the telemedicine consultation as with an in-person visit. Few respondents reported nervousness about using the equipment. These results suggest that child psychiatry consultation via telemedicine provides high levels of satisfaction for both children and adults.