Digital communication and virtual reality for extending the behavioural treatment of obesity – the patients’ perspective: results of an online survey in Germany

Table 2 Importance of different ways of communication in the context of participants’ obesity treatment

	Communication with therapist		Communication with other patients
	M	SD	M	SD
face-to-face	4.30	0.86	3.59	1.20
via telephone	3.49	0.99	2.92	1.13
via E-Mail	3.42	1.20	3.01	1.15
via video	3.03	1.27	2.72	1.19

Note. n = 141. Higher scores indicate higher importance: 1 = not important to 5 = very important

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