DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.24790275
title: Encuesta uso nuevas tecnologías y psicopatología antes-después COVID.pdf

description: <b>Instrument for paper "Impact of COVID-19 on Psychotherapies for the Treatment of Depression by Videoconferencing in Spain"</b>For data collection, an "ad hoc" questionnaire of 47 questions was designed. The first twenty-one questions focused on evaluating the use of different telematic tools (e.g question 15. Use and management of Internet content management systems. Mark only one circle per row: 1: Wordpress, 2: Blogger... 6: others). The next 15 questions explored various aspects related to online methodology both before and after the Coronavirus (e.g., question 33. Regarding online therapy: Of all those listed both BEFORE and AFTER the Coronavirus, please choose in order of importance the TOP THREE CONCERNS that arise when doing online therapy). Finally, the 11 remaining questions evaluated whether teletherapy had been used (0 = no; 1 = yes) for teletreatment of different diagnostic categories of DMS-5 both before and after COVID-19. The question focused on major depressive disorder is the one that has been part of this study (e.g, question 41. Indicate the degree to which you have treated major depression before and after the coronavirus: "not at all", "some", "quite a bit" "a lot"). <b>Procedure</b> This study was approved by the ethics committee of the General Psychology Council of Spain (CGPE), since all active professional psychologists must be registered with an Official College of Psychology and the CGPE is the Institution that coordinates and represents them (Ley 7/2005 de 13 de mayo). Once the proposal was reviewed and approved by the CGPE, we coordinate with the New Technologies Area to design the survey. Data collection began on June 26, five days after the Spanish government announced the end of the confinement of the first state of alarm for COVID-19 and ended on October 31, 2020. To do this, an email was sent to all psychologists registered in their respective professional associations, inviting them to answer the study anonymously and in a maximum time of 15 minutes. Finally, to fill the maximum number of respondents, the system sent an email notification while the survey was open. <b>Statistical analysis</b> This is a predictive model of performance during the first wave of COVID-19 of Spanish psychologists for categorically measured treatment of depression by VC. To measure the demand for the telematically treatment of depression, both globally and according to the type of psychotherapy delivered by Spanish psychologists during the first wave of COVID-19, we run a relative risk analysis (RR), as well as an analysis of residuals for proportions. In this study, the RR analysis corresponding to the ratio of two incidence rates (Tamargo et al., 2019) measures the probability of the occurrence of a phenomenon (delivering therapy by VC for depression) in a population or group (Spanish psychologists during the pandemic), compared to another group (Spanish psychologists before the pandemic). Therefore, this calculation of the RR will allow us to make a prognosis as a result of the teletreatment by VC in Spanish psychologists and, in addition, we will be able to estimate the variation of teletherapy delivering by VC for the treatment of depression, according to the type of psychotherapeutic orientation of the psychologist. Using a calculation of residuals for proportions is useful because it allows analysing, through the chi-square test, the difference between the observed proportion of an event with the expected proportion. For this, the residual is calculated by subtracting the observed proportion from the expected proportion and dividing the result by the square root of the expected variance. If the resulting value of the standardised residual is greater or less than 1.96 (for a significance level of 5%), the residual is considered statistically significant and, therefore, allows a prediction to be made about the incidence between the observed proportion and the expected. In the case of this study, on the incidence that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the demand for the treatment of depression delivered by VC, between June and September 2020. The data to analyze the proportion of change in the distribution of therapies delivered by Spanish psychologists for teletreatment of depression were obtained by analyzing the observed frequencies. For this, the answers were dichotomised (1 = yes, for all those who had answered "rarely", "sometimes", "often", "almost always"; and 2 = no, for those who had answered "never ") in relation to each of the psychotherapies that the Spanish psychologists indicated they developed for the teletreatment of depression (CBT, eclectic, humanistic, IT, PDT, ST, BT and 3GT). This procedure allowed the creation of a 2x2 multidimensional table with the percentage distribution calculated according to the number of respondents per response, and divided by the total number of responses to each of the questions.