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State of the Field of Mental Health Apps
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Mental health apps offer unique opportunities for self-management of mental health and well-being in mobile, cost-effective ways. There is an abundance of apps available to consumers, but selecting a useful one presents a challenge. Most available apps are not supported by empirical evidence and thus consumers have access to a range of unreviewed apps, the benefits of which are not known or supported. While user ratings exist, and are likely to be considered by consumers when selecting an app, they do not actually yield information on app suitability. A possible alternative way for consumers to choose an app would be to use an app review platform. A number of attempts have been made to construct such a platform, and this paper introduces PsyberGuide, which offers a step towards providing objective and actionable information for publicly available mental health apps.
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“There is currently somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 mental health apps [23,24], but it is estimated that only about 3% to 4% are actually evidence based.”
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- Authors
- Neary, M., & Schueller, S. M.
- Affiliations
- Northwestern University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Schueller, Stephen M.
- Venue
- Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-11
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 531-537
- ISSN
- 1077-7229 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7584258
- OpenAlex
- W2789479890
- Cited by
- 247
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 44 · 2022: 39 · 2021: 37 · 2020: 24 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 7
- FWCI
- 26.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Cognitive and Behavioral Practice (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (K08MH102336)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Health, Technology, Consumer Behavior
- Keywords
- mental health apps, app selection, user ratings, mobile mental health
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