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Dropout and Adherence in Distance Versus In-person Therapy

2025· article· W4415918808 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCommunications in Humanities Research · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldPsychology
TopicDigital Mental Health Interventions
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDropout (neural networks)Process (computing)MEDLINEClinical Practice

Abstract

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Psychotherapy is traditionally performed in person. However, since the COVID-19 epidemic, distance therapy has become increasingly popular as a more practical option. This article aims to review and compare the characteristics and differences between distance and in-person psychotherapy in terms of dropout and adherence rates, through a literature review and cross-study comparisons. The main finding from this study is that a sense of responsibility, regular habits and therapeutic alliances all play essential roles in the continuous participation of clients in both modes. The difference lies in the fact that distance therapy is flexible and accessible, but it is more prone to early interruption or insufficient interaction. In-person therapy relies on fixed times and places, as well as non-verbal communication and immediate feedback to promote adherence. This paper aims to deepen the understanding of the psychotherapy process through a thorough analysis of dropout and adherence in the two counselling models. This study also provides therapists and institutions with insight regarding improvement strategies to reduce dropout and enhance the long-term engagement of clients.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.670
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.574
GPT teacher head0.595
Teacher spread0.021 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it