Digital Mental Health Interventions for Depression: Scoping Review of User Engagement.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While many digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) have been found to be efficacious, patient engagement with DMHIs has increasingly emerged as a concern for implementation in real-world clinical settings. To address engagement, we must first understand what standard engagement levels are in the context of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and how these compare with other treatments.

Objective

This scoping review aims to examine the state of reporting on intervention engagement in RCTs of mobile app-based interventions intended to treat symptoms of depression. We sought to identify what engagement metrics are and are not routinely reported as well as what the metrics that are reported reflect about standard engagement levels.

Methods

We conducted a sy

SUBMITTER: Lipschitz JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9617183 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature