Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent mental health issue among
veterans. Access to PTSD treatment is influenced by geographic (ie, travel distance to
facilities), temporal (ie, time delay between services), financial (ie, eligibility and cost of
services), and cultural (ie, social stigma) barriers. Objective: The emergence of mobile
health (mHealth) apps has the potential to bridge many of these access gaps by providing
remote resources and monitoring that can offer discrete assistance to trauma survivors with …