Tag: COVID-19
Transforming Mental Health Care With Prescription Digital Therapeutics
Even as technological changes transform many aspects of daily life, the treatment of mental health disorders, which affect approximately 97 million people worldwide1, has remained largely unchanged for decades.
Texting for Wellness: Using Digital Mental Health Tools for Support in Another COVID-19 Winter
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of being able to provide mental health support without face-to-face contact. This article explores a Canada-based texting service that aims to connect individuals in Saskatchewan to support services.
Digital Mental Health in Australia: Update from eMHIC’s Board Chair – Christine Morgan
As we welcome in 2022, we look forward to a new and exciting year of collaboration. Through all the challenges of the pandemic, the ability to continue to work together and learn from each other has been a strong constant.
Mobile Phone-based Interventions for Mental Health: A Systematic Meta-review of 14 Meta-analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials
Mobile phone-based interventions have been proposed as a means for reducing the burden of disease associated with mental illness.
A Digital Human for Delivering a Remote Loneliness and Stress Intervention to At-Risk Younger and Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Randomized Pilot Trial
Loneliness is a growing public health issue that has been exacerbated in vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic. Computer agents are capable of delivering psychological therapies through the internet; however, there is limited research on their acceptability to date.
Digital Health Solutions for Mental Health Disorders During COVID-19
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had an immense impact infecting 10 million individuals and claiming 500,000 lives globally as of 1 July 2020 (1). The rapid spread was largely enabled by the onset of the outbreak in Wuhan
These Are the Top 10 Innovations in Mental Health
The World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Mental Health partnered with Scientific American to select the ten innovations doing the most to create a better world for everyone suffering from mental ill-health.
A Digital Human for Delivering a Remote Loneliness and Stress Intervention to At-Risk Younger and Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Randomised Pilot Trial
Loneliness is a growing public health issue that has been exacerbated in vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic. Computer agents are capable of delivering psychological therapies through the internet, however, there is little research on their acceptability to date.
Using Brief Measures to Identify Depression and Other Mental Disorders: A Challenge for Research and Clinical Practice
In more recent decades our understanding of depression and related conditions have been codified into formal diagnostic classification systems…This editorial seeks to remind our field that although brief measures are useful tools, when used inappropriately, they may lead to a
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