User Reviews of Depression App Features: Sentiment Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health in general, and depression in particular, remain undertreated conditions. Mobile health (mHealth) apps offer tremendous potential to overcome the barriers to accessing mental health care and millions of depression apps have been installed and used. However, little is known about the effect of these apps on a potentially vulnerable user population and the emotional reactions that they generate, even though emotions are a key component of mental health. App reviews, spontaneously posted by the users on app stores, offer up-to-date insights into the experiences and emotions of this population and are increasingly decisive in influencing mHealth app adoption.

Objective

This study aims to investigate the emotional reactions of depression app users to diff

SUBMITTER: Meyer J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8715360 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature