JAMA Psychiatry: Trends in Outpatient Psychotherapy Among Adults in the US
In this cross-sectional study, significant psychotherapy increases occurred for adults with mild or moderate but not serious distress, younger but not older adults, females but not males, college educated but not less than college educated adults, individuals with higher but not lower family incomes, and privately insured but not publicly insured or uninsured persons. In 2021, individuals who had a higher income, were employed, and were college educated had significantly higher teletherapy use than their counterparts. These findings suggest that recent increases in psychotherapy use, which coincided with teletherapy expansion, preferentially occurred among socioeconomically advantaged adults with mild or moderate distress.
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