Leveraging Mobile Health to Manage Mental Health/Behavioral Health Disorders: Systematic Literature Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health is a complex condition, highly related to emotion. The COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant spike in depression (from isolation) and anxiety (event related). Mobile Health (mHealth) and telemedicine offer solutions to augment patient care, provide education, improve symptoms of depression, and assuage fears and anxiety.

Objective

This review aims to assess the effectiveness of mHealth to provide mental health care by analyzing articles published in the last year in peer-reviewed, academic journals using strong methodology (randomized controlled trial).

Methods

We queried 4 databases (PubMed, CINAHL [Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature], Web of Science, and ScienceDirect) using a standard Boolean search string. We conduct

SUBMITTER: Kruse CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9832355 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature