Assessment of Mental Health Services Available Through Smartphone Apps.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

As more patients and clinicians are turning to mental health smartphone apps to expand access to services, little is known about the current state of the app marketplaces and what these apps are actually offering in terms of features, privacy, price, and services.

Objective

To assess the current state of mental health apps, explore the association between app privacy scores and popularity as measured by star ratings and downloads, and to understand opportunities and challenges facing the commercial app landscape.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study had trained raters using the public-facing M-Health Index and Navigation Database (MIND) to assess and review 578 mental health apps. The sample of apps used in this analysis were pulled

SUBMITTER: Camacho E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9857226 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature