Digital mental health interventions for depression
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One reason may be that as research in digital interventions matured, digital interventions focusing on depression began to examine explicitly their effects in the clinical treatment of depression.
“One reason may be that as research in digital interventions matured, digital interventions focusing on depression began to examine explicitly their effects in the clinical treatment of depression [80,81].”
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“The thematic coherence of a DHI can serve as a cognitive anchor , helping reduce distance and making it easier for users to relate to the intervention [56,57].”
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“One of the most common frameworks used in digital interventions is CBT [14,31,32].”
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“Despite these positive effects, concerns remain regarding treatment adherence, with fi ve studies reporting adherence rates below 50% [9].”
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“High dropout rates were frequently reported in web-based studies, despite the convenience that digital use in the studies provided to both the research and participants [35,36].”
Editorial: Digital Interventions in Mental Health
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Digital Interventions to Improve College and University Student Mental Health
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“[9] nor more broadly in the extant literature: while these models offer more accessible mental health care, how do we engage (and retain) young people in programs who lack computer/mobile devices or reliable internet, young people with hearing or vision challenges, or young people experience language barriers? [11] Mo…”
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“…cognitive behavioral therapy, an established, evidence-based approach to depression treatment, can be effectively delivered using digital platforms [9,10]. mHealth approaches for depression treatment are particularly appropriate for young adults, who have high usage of mobile phones and text…”
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“CBT is effective when delivered by non-mental health professionals in their usual care settings (e.g., Anvari et al., 2023; Himle et al., 2014; Weaver et al., 2022; Zhang et al., 2019) and via technology (T-CBT; e.g., Andrews et al., 2018; Himle et al., 2022; Karyotaki et al., 2021).”
DARA: Development of a Chatbot Support System for an Anxiety Reduction Digital Intervention
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“As a response to the need for accessible, less resource intensive interventions, the use of digital applications to provide mental health support has grown in recent years (Himle et al., 2022).”
HR PRACTICES ADDRESSING MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES AMONG GEN Z
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“Organizations may easily adopt digital mental health services to suit the mental health needs of Gen Z workers who are used to using technology for self-care and support (Lattie et al., 2019; Lipschitz et al., 2022; Himle et al., 2022).”
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Transformative Effect of Virtual Reality and the Metaverse
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- Authors
- Himle, J. A., Weaver, A., Zhang, A., & Xiang, X.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Corresponding author
- Himle, Joseph A.
- Venue
- Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-02
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 50-59
- ISSN
- 1077-7229 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3129291866
- Cited by
- 65
- References
- 67
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 5
- FWCI
- 9.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Locations
- Cognitive and Behavioral Practice (publishedVersion)
- Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion)
- University of Michigan Library
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Keywords
- digital mental health interventions, depression, cognitive behavioral therapy, treatment gap, digital therapeutics, clinical implementation barriers
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