Reassessing evidence-based content in popular smartphone apps for depression and anxiety: Developing and applying user-adjusted analyses.

Akash R Wasil Sarah Gillespie Raveena PatelAnnemarie PetreKatherine E Venturo-ConerlyRebecca M ShingletonJohn R WeiszRobert J DeRubeis

Published in: Journal of consulting and clinical psychology (2020)

The potential impact of MH apps on mental health may be best evaluated via assessment that combines tallies of evidence-based content with data on the content users are actually accessing. Given wide variation in the popularity of MH apps, findings weighted by usage data may differ markedly from findings based on raw tallies alone. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

Keyphrases

mental health
electronic health record
big data
machine learning
computed tomography
data analysis
risk assessment
human health
network analysis