Internet- and Mobile-Based Psychological Interventions: Applications, Efficacy, and Potential for Improving Mental Health: A Report of the EFPA E-Health Taskforce

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“Most online interventions are grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), with the majority of these using traditional CBT techniques (e.g. cognitive restructuring, progressive muscle relaxation, etc.; Ebert et al., 2018; Fleming et al., 2018).”

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“They are effective in treating and preventing a broad range of disorders (19, 20), yet uptake remains low as students lack knowledge and experience with IMI but show positive attitudes towards apps (i.e., future expectations and less fear of risks) (21).”

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“A promising approach to address the challenge of low uptake of mental health services could be telehealth interventions which can be used flexibly in time and location and thus, facilitate health care access (Ebert et al., 2018; Snoswell et al., 2021).”

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“While there is already substantial evidence in the area of digital interventions in the field of mental health, there is still much to learn about the needs and best way of providing digital interventions for people with medical conditions (Ebert et al., 2018).”

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“The research on IMIs has so far almost exclusively focused on stand-alone IMIs, i.e., online interventions that are used as an alternative to on-site treatment (8, 9).”

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“Using the internet to provide psychotherapeutic interventions may increase the coverage of usual care services [8,9] by providing highly accessible and scalable interventions reaching people who cannot be reached otherwise.”

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“IMIs have the potential to overcome barriers to help-seeking by offering anonymous, flexible, and easily accessible support whenever and wherever needed, thereby reducing feelings of shame and stigmatization (Ebert et al., 2018).”

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“several trials suggesting near equivalent effects as compared to face-to-face therapy”

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“Researchers on telehealth interventions have argued that remotely delivered health service might offer low-threshold access to (mental) health care (Ebert et al., 2018; Snoswell et al., 2021) and improves health care in underserved areas (Myers, 2019; Salize et al., 2007), which is supported for farming communities by our interviewees.”

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“Other studies revealed that digital health interventions, including smartphone apps, showed significant clinical improvements in depression and anxiety (19), and psychosis (20).”

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“Internet and mobile-based interventions (IMIs) can help overcome barriers of face-to-face treatments.30–32”

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“Numerous clinical trials summarized in several meta-analyses have now shown the effectiveness of IMIs in the treatment of mental disorders (8), particularly well-studied in depressive disorders and anxiety disorders (10, 11).”

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“Internet- and mobile-based interventions (IMIs) can provide a means of making evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions available in a timely manner, thereby contributing to reducing the shortage of care (8, 9).”

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“a recent narrative review of digital interventions reported large effect sizes for participants with major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder and small effect sizes for eating disorders or problematic alcohol use [23].”

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“In addition, supported digital interventions have comparably smaller attrition rates and greater engagement, as demonstrated in systematic reviews [23,85].”