Providing Human Support for the Use of Digital Mental Health Interventions: Systematic Meta-review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) have been increasingly deployed to bridge gaps in mental health care, particularly given their promising efficacy. Nevertheless, attrition among DMHI users remains high. In response, human support has been studied as a means of improving retention to and outcomes of DMHIs. Although a growing number of studies and meta-analyses have investigated the effects of human support for DMHIs on mental health outcomes, systematic empirical evidence of its effectiveness across mental health domains remains scant.

Objective

We aimed to summarize the results of meta-analyses of human support versus no support for DMHI use across various outcome domains, participant samples, and support providers.

Methods

We conducted a systema

SUBMITTER: Werntz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9941905 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature