Finding Web-Based Anxiety Interventions on the World Wide Web: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One relatively new and increasingly popular approach of increasing access to treatment is Web-based intervention programs. The advantage of Web-based approaches is the accessibility, affordability, and anonymity of potentially evidence-based treatment. Despite much research evidence on the effectiveness of Web-based interventions for anxiety found in the literature, little is known about what is publically available for potential consumers on the Web.

Objective

Our aim was to explore what a consumer searching the Web for Web-based intervention options for anxiety-related issues might find. The objectives were to identify currently publically available Web-based intervention programs for anxiety and to synthesize and review these in terms of (1) website characteris

SUBMITTER: Ashford MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4936762 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature