Effectiveness and Minimum Effective Dose of App-Based Mobile Health Interventions for Anxiety and Depression Symptom Reduction: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile health (mHealth) apps offer new opportunities to deliver psychological treatments for mental illness in an accessible, private format. The results of several previous systematic reviews support the use of app-based mHealth interventions for anxiety and depression symptom management. However, it remains unclear how much or how long the minimum treatment "dose" is for an mHealth intervention to be effective. Just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) has been introduced in the mHealth domain to facilitate behavior changes and is positioned to guide the design of mHealth interventions with enhanced adherence and effectiveness.

Objective

Inspired by the JITAI framework, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the dose effectiveness of app

SUBMITTER: Lu SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9494214 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature