Smartphone, Social Media, and Mental Health App Use in an Acute Transdiagnostic Psychiatric Sample.
Courtney BeardAlexandra L SilvermanMarie ForgeardM Taylor WilmerJohn B TorousThröstur BjorgvinssonPublished in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2019)
The high interest in and willingness to use mental health apps, paired with the only moderate current reported usage, indicate a potential unmet treatment opportunity in psychiatric populations. There is potential to optimize non-mental health-specific apps to better support the needs of those with mental illness and to design a new wave of mental health apps that match the needs of these populations as well as the way they use smartphones in daily life.