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Do mental health mobile apps work: evidence and recommendations for designing high-efficacy mental health mobile apps
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Smartphone-based mental health apps represent a unique opportunity to expand the availability and quality of mental health treatment. The number of mobile health (mHealth) apps focused on mental health has rapidly increased; a 2015 World Health Organization (WHO) survey of 15,000 mHealth apps revealed that 29% focus on mental health diagnosis, treatment, or support (1).
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Metadata
- Authors
- Chandrashekar, P.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Chandrashekar, Pooja
- ORCID
- Chandrashekar, Pooja
- Venue
- mHealth
- Publisher
- AME Publishing Company
- Published
- 2018-03
- Volume
- 4
- Pages
- 6-6
- ISSN
- 2306-9740 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5897664
- OpenAlex
- W2792516940
- Cited by
- 359
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2026: 27 · 2025: 41 · 2024: 53 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 70 · 2021: 58 · 2020: 42 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 39.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- mHealth (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Keywords
- mental health apps, mobile health, mobile application, app efficacy, mobile application design, digital mental health interventions, access to mental health care
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