Background Digital mental health interventions (DMHIs), which deliver mental health
support via technologies such as mobile apps, can increase access to mental health …

eHealth interventions are recognized to have a tremendous potential to promote patient
engagement. To date, the majority of studies examine the efficacy of eHealth in enhancing …

Blended care, a combination of online and face-to-face therapy, is increasingly being
applied in mental health care to obtain optimal benefit from the advantages these two …

Background Common mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety, are
estimated to affect up to 15% of the UK population at any one time, and health care systems …

Background Blending online modules into face-to-face therapy offers perspectives to
enhance patient self-management and to increase the (cost-) effectiveness of therapy, while …

Background: Advancements in information technology (IT) and its increasingly ubiquitous
nature expand the ability to engage patients in the health care process and motivate health …

Background Until now, the use of technology in health care was driven mostly by the
assumptions about the benefits of electronic health (eHealth) rather than its evidence. It is …

Background: Chronic illnesses are significant to individuals and costly to society. When
systematically implemented, the well-established and tested Chronic Care Model (CCM) is …

Background Low levels of mental health literacy (MHL) have been identified as an important
contributor to the mental health treatment gap. Interventions to improve MHL have used …

Background There is need for more cost and time effective treatments for depression. This is
the first randomised controlled trial in which a blended treatment-including four face-to-face …