Apps for Mental Health: An Evaluation of Behavior Change Strategies and Recommendations for Future Development.

ABSTRACT: Mobile applications have shown promise in supporting people with mental health issues to adopt healthy lifestyles using various persuasive strategies. However, the extent to which mental health apps successfully employ various persuasive strategies remains unknown. Hence, it is important to understand the persuasive strategies integrated into mental health applications (apps) and how they are implemented to promote mental health. This paper aims to achieve three main objectives. First, we review 103 mental health apps and identify distinct persuasive strategies incorporated in them using the Persuasive Systems Design (PSD) model and Behavior Change Techniques (BCTs). We further classify the persuasive strategies based on the type of mental health issues the app is focused on. Second, we re

SUBMITTER: Alqahtani F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7861234 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature