What Is the Current and Future Status of Digital Mental Health Interventions?
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The prevalence of mental disorders continues to increase, especially with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although we have evidence-based psychological treatments to address these conditions, most people encounter some barriers to receiving this help (e.g., stigma, geographical or time limitations). Digital mental health interventions (e.g., Internet-based interventions, smartphone apps, mixed realities -virtual and augmented reality) provide an opportunity to improve accessibility to these treatments. This article summarizes the main contributions of the different types of digital mental health solutions. It analyzes their limitations (e.g., drop-out rates, lack of engagement, lack of personalization, lack of cultural adaptations) and showcases the latest sophisticated and innovative technological advances under the umbrella of precision medicine (e.g., digital phenotyping, chatbots, or conversational agents). Finally, future challenges related to the need for real world implementation of these interventions, the use of predictive methodology, and hybrid models of care in clinical practice, among others, are discussed.
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- Authors
- Baños, R. M., Herrero, R., & Vara, M. D.
- Affiliations
- Universitat de València (ES)
- Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)
- Venue
- The Spanish Journal of Psychology
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2022
- Volume
- 25
- Pages
- e5-e5
- ISSN
- 1138-7416 (ISSN-L)
- 1988-2904
- OpenAlex
- W4210472589
- Cited by
- 82
- References
- 70
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 5
- FWCI
- 2.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Spanish Journal of Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Zaguan (University of Zaragoza Repository) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Excellence Research Program PROMETEO. Conselleria d’Educació, Investigació, Cultura i Esport, Generalitat Valenciana (PROMETEO/2018/110)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Keywords
- digital mental health interventions, online intervention, mobile application, virtual and augmented reality, access to mental health care, barriers to treatment, dropout rates, user engagement, personalization, cultural adaptation, digital phenotyping, chatbots, precision medicine, predictive modeling, hybrid care model, COVID-19 pandemic
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Humans, Mental Health, Pandemics, Mobile Applications
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