The experience of using telemedicine technologies in sanitary and educational work in psychiatry.

One of the important tasks of the preventive activities of health authorities and institutions is the hygienic education and upbringing of the population in order to involve them in active participation in the protection of personal and public health. It has been proven that community-oriented mental health education programs motivate patients and their relatives to see a psychiatrist earlier. The relevance of this study lies in the fact that public awareness of mental illness remains low, while telemedicine technologies are becoming more widespread in healthcare. Objective: to evaluate the experience of using telemedicine technologies in sanitary and educational work in psychiatry. Materials and methods. 236 respondents from 34 subjects of 8 federal districts of Russia answered the questions of the online form. Unit of observation: a listener of lectures within the framework of the «Week of Mental Health» at the V. M. Bekhterev National Research Medical Center. Sociological and statistical research methods were used. Statistical calculations included the use of the Wilcoxon t-test (with an error risk value of P