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. 2021 Jul 23;5(7):e27865. doi: 10.2196/27865

Table 3.

Use of other support services by the study participants (n=32).

Question and answer choices Value, n (%)
Which offers by the psychiatric outpatient department helped you particularly well in the last few weeks?

Telephone contact with treating psychiatrist 19 (59)

Telephone contact with treating psychotherapist 9 (28)

Contact in group chat 22 (69)

Others 6 (19)
Which other offers did you use in the last few weeks and thought to be especially helpful?

Social contacts (eg, calls with friends and family) 29 (91)

Social media


Instagram users, n (%) 5 (29)


Time spent on Instagram (hours/day), mean (SD) 0.5 (0.3)


WhatsApp users, n (%) 14 (82)


Time spent on WhatsApp (hours/day), mean (SD) 0.9 (0.5)


Facebook users, n (%) 8 (47)


Time spent on Facebook (hours/day), mean (SD) 1.1 (0.8)


Other social media platform users, n (%) 9 (3)


Time spent on other platforms (hours/day), mean (SD) 1.7 (1.5)


Total social media users, n (%) 17 (53)


Total time on social media (hours/day), mean (SD) 2.4 (1.7)

Other online offers 5 (16)

Contact with treating therapist (outside psychiatric outpatient department) 5 (16)

Other contacts 7 (2)