The growing field of digital psychiatry: current evidence and the future of apps, social media, chatbots, and virtual reality

J Torous, S Bucci, IH Bell, LV Kessing… - World …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the COVID‐19 pandemic has largely increased the utilization of telehealth, mobile mental
health technologies–such as smartphone apps, virtual reality, chatbots, and social media …

Digital interventions for the treatment of depression: A meta-analytic review.

I Moshe, Y Terhorst, P Philippi, M Domhardt… - Psychological …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
The high global prevalence of depression, together with the recent acceleration of remote
care owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, has prompted increased interest in the efficacy of …

Examining the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on family mental health in Canada: findings from a national cross-sectional study

AC Gadermann, KC Thomson, CG Richardson… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives In the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, social isolation, school/child care
closures and employment instability have created unprecedented conditions for families …

[HTML][HTML] Digital mental health and COVID-19: using technology today to accelerate the curve on access and quality tomorrow

J Torous, KJ Myrick, N Rauseo-Ricupero… - JMIR mental …, 2020 - mental.jmir.org
As interest in and use of telehealth during the COVID-19 global pandemic increase, the
potential of digital health to increase access and quality of mental health is becoming clear …

[HTML][HTML] Factors influencing adherence to mHealth apps for prevention or management of noncommunicable diseases: systematic review

R Jakob, S Harperink, AM Rudolf, E Fleisch… - Journal of Medical …, 2022 - jmir.org
Background Mobile health (mHealth) apps show vast potential in supporting patients and
health care systems with the increasing prevalence and economic costs of …

A randomized trial of online single-session interventions for adolescent depression during COVID-19

JL Schleider, MC Mullarkey, KR Fox… - Nature human …, 2022 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has potentially increased the risk for adolescent depression. Even
pre-pandemic,< 50% of youth with depression accessed care, highlighting needs for …

[HTML][HTML] Mobile phone-based interventions for mental health: A systematic meta-review of 14 meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials

SB Goldberg, SU Lam, O Simonsson, J Torous… - PLOS digital …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Mobile phone-based interventions have been proposed as a means for reducing the burden
of disease associated with mental illness. While numerous randomized controlled trials and …

Dropout rates in clinical trials of smartphone apps for depressive symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis

J Torous, J Lipschitz, M Ng, J Firth - Journal of affective disorders, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Low engagement and attrition from app interventions is an increasingly
recognized challenge for interpreting and translating the findings from digital health …

The need for a mental health technology revolution in the COVID-19 pandemic

CA Figueroa, A Aguilera - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The current coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic not only poses a large threat to the
physical health of our population, if we fail to act now, it will also have detrimental long-term …

[HTML][HTML] A therapeutic relational agent for reducing problematic substance use (Woebot): development and usability study

JJ Prochaska, EA Vogel, A Chieng, M Kendra… - Journal of medical …, 2021 - jmir.org
Background: Misuse of substances is common, can be serious and costly to society, and
often goes untreated due to barriers to accessing care. Woebot is a mental health digital …