Internet-connected devices ownership, use and interests in bipolar disorder: from desktop to mobile mental health
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Advances in communication technologies have led to a new era of ubiquitous accessibility to Internet-based platforms (IBPs) and devices with an unprecedented potential for mental health. However, it is rarely explored if potential user groups own devices from which they can access these or whether they are interested in the development of new platforms. Two anonymous surveys were circulated to 20,000 subscribers of the Bipolar UK e-newsletter. A total of 570 people responded to the first survey and 286 responded to the second. The first contained five questions regarding participants’ interest in a smartphone IBP to support their illness while the second consisted in 27 questions exploring devices ownership and use as well as their potential interest in emerging new IBPs: 97.6% of respondents were diagnosed with bipolar disorder (BD) by a healthcare professional and 92.8% of them owned a smartphone. The most frequent purposes for daily smartphone use were text messaging (73.4%), e-mail (71.3%) and social networks (53.8%). About 77% of respondents expressed willingness to receive self-management strategies through a smartphone app. The pattern of wide-spread and growing ownership and use of devices with access to IBPs among people with BD is similar to that of the general population. Combined with the expressed interest in novel technological developments for disorder self-management, this represents a great opportunity to establish a two-way avenue to collect and deliver novel type of interventions offering personalized material to people with BD.
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Estimates of app use may be higher amongst respondents to a web-based survey relative to community samples.
“Further, estimates of app use may be higher amongst respondents to a web-based survey relative to community samples, although rates of smartphone ownership are similar to other large-scale BD surveys (Hidalgo-Mazzei et al. 2019).”
From Evaluating the quality, safety, and functionality of commonly used smartphone apps for bipolar disorder mood and sleep self-management (2022) · cites this paper as Hidalgo-Mazzei et al. 2019
The Limitations section identifies a selection bias: respondents recruited through an e-newsletter were already using internet technologies and might be more interested in using them in the future. The Discussion reports that 34.9% currently used mental health apps, but the paper does not compare app-use rates with a community sample or say that web-survey respondents' app use is higher. It does report smartphone ownership in its BD survey, supporting the citing sentence's use of it as a comparison survey. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredInternet-connected device ownership and interest in smartphone-based interventions is high amongst people living with BD.
“Given that internet-connected device ownership and interest in smartphone-based interventions is high amongst people living with BD (Hidalgo-Mazzei et al. 2019)”
From Evaluating the quality, safety, and functionality of commonly used smartphone apps for bipolar disorder mood and sleep self-management (2022) · cites this paper as Hidalgo-Mazzei et al. 2019
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- Authors
- Hidalgo-Mazzei, D., Nikolova, V. L., Kitchen, S., & Young, A. H.
- Affiliations
- Department of Psychological Medicine, Centre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK;
- King's College London (GB)
- Bipolar UK, London, UK
- Corresponding author
- Young, Allan H.
- Venue
- Digital Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2019-01-01
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-7
- ISSN
- 2575-517X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2947716892
- Cited by
- 23
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2025: 5 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 3.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Digital Psychiatry (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- King's College London
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Keywords
- bipolar disorder, IoT devices, smartphone ownership, smartphone use, mobile mental health, web platform, self-management strategies, mobile application, social networks, text messaging, email
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