Mental Health Mobile Apps in the French App Store: Assessment Study of Functionality and Quality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Approximately 800 million people, representing 11% of the world's population, are affected by mental health problems. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated problems and triggered a decline in well-being, with drastic increase in the incidence of conditions such as anxiety, depression, and stress. Approximately 20,000 mental health apps are listed in mobile app stores. However, no significant evaluation of mental health apps in French, spoken by approximately 300 million people, has been identified in the literature yet.

Objective

This study aims to review the mental health mobile apps currently available on the French Apple App Store and Google Play Store and to evaluate their quality using Mobile App Rating Scale-French (MARS-F).

Methods

Screening of mental he

SUBMITTER: Carrouel F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9607929 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature