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An Empathy-Driven, Conversational Artificial Intelligence Agent (Wysa) for Digital Mental Well-Being: Real-World Data Evaluation Mixed-Methods Study (Preprint)
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BACKGROUND: A World Health Organization 2017 report stated that major depression affects almost 5% of the human population. Major depression is associated with impaired psychosocial functioning and reduced quality of life. Challenges such as shortage of mental health personnel, long waiting times, perceived stigma, and lower government spends pose barriers to the alleviation of mental health problems. Face-to-face psychotherapy alone provides only point-in-time support and cannot scale quickly enough to address this growing global public health challenge. Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled, empathetic, and evidence-driven conversational mobile app technologies could play an active role in filling this gap by increasing adoption and enabling reach. Although such a technology can help manage these barriers, they should never replace time with a health care professional for more severe mental health problems. However, app technologies could act as a supplementary or intermediate support system. Mobile mental well-being apps need to uphold privacy and foster both short- and long-term positive outcomes. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to present a preliminary real-world data evaluation of the effectiveness and engagement levels of an AI-enabled, empathetic, text-based conversational mobile mental well-being app, Wysa, on users with self-reported symptoms of depression. METHODS: In the study, a group of anonymous global users were observed who voluntarily installed the Wysa app, engaged in text-based messaging, and self-reported symptoms of depression using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9. On the basis of the extent of app usage on and between 2 consecutive screening time points, 2 distinct groups of users (high users and low users) emerged. The study used mixed-methods approach to evaluate the impact and engagement levels among these users. The quantitative analysis measured the app impact by comparing the average improvement in symptoms of depression between high and low users. The qualitative analysis measured the app engagement and experience by analyzing in-app user feedback and evaluated the performance of a machine learning classifier to detect user objections during conversations. RESULTS: The average mood improvement (ie, difference in pre- and post-self-reported depression scores) between the groups (ie, high vs low users; n=108 and n=21, respectively) revealed that the high users group had significantly higher average improvement (mean 5.84 [SD 6.66]) compared with the low users group (mean 3.52 [SD 6.15]); Mann-Whitney P=.03 and with a moderate effect size of 0.63. Moreover, 67.7% of user-provided feedback responses found the app experience helpful and encouraging. CONCLUSIONS: The real-world data evaluation findings on the effectiveness and engagement levels of Wysa app on users with self-reported symptoms of depression show promise. However, further work is required to validate these initial findings in much larger samples and across longer periods.
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“Empirical research on chatbots for mental health support, such as Woebot and Wysa, demonstrates that users often describe their relationship with the AI in affectively laden and anthropomorphic terms, reporting perceived understanding and companionship [35,36].”
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“They also reported that a minority of users, around 30% or less, thought that the tool did not understand them or found their interactions unhelpful or bothersome (73, 74, 76–78, 80–82, 84, 90).”
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“For instance, the therapeutic AI agents or chatbots identified by our systematic search (i.e., Wysa, Woebot, TEO, Tess, XiaoE, and Sexpert) were effective at delivering self-guided therapy content by communicating intelligently with their users, promoting a significant reduction in mental health symptom severity with high user satisfaction (73, 74, 76–78, 82, 84, 90).”
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“Wysa also reported a reduction in self-reported symptoms of depression and reported that 68% of the cohort found the app helpful and encouraging [14].”
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“Most studies (n=20) included >50% of female participants, with n=4 studies not reporting the percentage of males or females in their study (31, 33, 84, 90).”
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“The effectiveness of health care conversational agents was assessed in 8 studies [47,52,57,61,70,75,81,84].”
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“In addition, 67.7% of users found the app usage to be helpful and encouraging [61].”
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“Inkster et al [61] employed the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 self-reported depression scale to note significant improvements in depression scores in the high user group compared with the low user group [61].”
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“1 study concluded that the severity of depression decreased significantly postintervention in the high user (P<.001) and low user (P=.01) groups [31].”
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“Generally, greater engagement with the conversational agent resulted in greater reductions in psychological distress [22,26,28,29,33].”
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“Finally, the 2 uncontrolled studies included in the review [22,29] and 2 studies that did not test for between-group effects [28,30] reported reductions in depression [28-30] and loneliness [22] postintervention.”
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“The use of conversational agents for treating mental health problems appears to be limited but is growing quickly, with 5 of the included studies published in 2018 alone [23,24,26,29,34].”
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“Studies that used more flexible recruitment routes such as online adverts [34] and app stores [29] recruited greater numbers of participants.”
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“The predominant challenges to intervention with a conversational agent included repetitive content [22,25,26,28,29,33], limitations in the agents ability to understand or respond appropriately [22,25,26,29], a shallow or superficial relationship [28,33], the sound and quality of the agents voice [32], and specific intervention tools or content [25,29].”
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“Finally, a large proportion of agents were eclectic interventions comprising a variety of strategies and psychoeducation drawing on a range of therapeutic orientations [22,26,29,33].”
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“As a result, we found assumptive questions (e.g., anxiety) and responses from Wysa, Woebot, and ChatGPT with no association with a clinical reference or clinical support.”
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“Wysa uses a CBT conversational agent to engage in empathetic and therapeutic conversations and activities, aiming to help users with various mental health problems (Inkster et al., 2018).”
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“The authors reported that high users (i.e., participants who responded to the two pre-post assessments and one additional in-between evaluation) showed a significantly greater improvement compared with low users, that is, participants engaging only in the two pre-post assessments [81].”
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“The largest proportion of them (12/31, 39%) addressed mental health issues [13,32-42]”
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“The most frequently raised issue with conversational agents (9 studies) was poor understanding because of limited vocabulary, voice recognition accuracy, or error management of word inputs [13,32-37,41,52].”
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“users in 3 studies noted disliking the repetitive conversations with the agents [13,36,37].”
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“Wysa, which is an established, multicomponent digital mental health intervention that uses chatbot technology and text-based access to human counselors to deliver cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness training, and sleep tools, among other features.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Inkster, B., Sarda, S., & Subramanian, V.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Inkster, Becky
- Venue
- JMIR mhealth and uhealth
- Publisher
- JMIR Publications Inc.
- Published
- 2018-09-05
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- e12106-e12106
- ISSN
- 2291-5222 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6286427
- OpenAlex
- W2895995041
- Cited by
- 1,063
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 50.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- JMIR mhealth and uhealth (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- 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 › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Keywords
- Wysa, conversational AI agents, depression, psychological well-being, mental health apps, empathy, user engagement, app usage patterns, user feedback, mood improvement, real-world effectiveness, digital mental health, PHQ-9, user experience
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