{
  "id": 16728,
  "url": "https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e89177",
  "title": "Comparing Video-Based and Face-to-Face Psychotherapy: Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-Analysis Across Mental Disorders",
  "summary": "Background: Video-based psychotherapy (VBT) is increasingly used to expand access to mental health care. Review studies generally report symptom outcomes similar to those achieved with face-to-face (F2F) psychotherapy. However, these studies often analyze VBT alongside other remote modalities, and it remains unclear what portion of the effects can be attributed to the video-based setting itself. Objective: The objective of this systematic review is to compare VBT and F2F psychotherapy in terms o",
  "authors": "Christian Meyer-Keirath, Hannah Wallis, Mariebelle Kaus, Michael Schenk, Jolina Holzhaus, Caroline Rometsch, Claudia Buntrock, Christian Apfelbacher, Florian Junne",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "healthcare",
  "orgs": "meta",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-05T19:00:19.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-06T05:10:11.148Z",
  "source_slug": "x-jmir-journal-of-medical-internet-researc",
  "source_name": "JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.jmir.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16728",
  "original_url": "https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e89177",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}