Attention and Cognitive Bias Modification Apps: Review of the Literature and of Commercially Available Apps.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Automatic processes, such as attentional biases or interpretative biases, have been purported to be responsible for several psychiatric disorders. Recent reviews have highlighted that cognitive biases may be modifiable. Advances in eHealth and mHealth have been harnessed for the delivery of cognitive bias modification. While several studies have evaluated mHealth-based bias modification intervention, no review, to our knowledge, has synthesized the evidence for it. In addition, no review has looked at commercial apps and their functionalities and methods of bias modification. A review is essential in determining whether scientifically validated apps are available commercially and the proportion of commercial apps that have been evaluated scientifically.

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SUBMITTER: Zhang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5992457 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature