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Online Mental Health Program for Australian Adolescents: A Study

Digital Health Global

A study recently published in The Lancet Digital Health has explored the impact of an online, school-based program designed to prevent anxiety, depression, and substance misuse in Australian adolescents. The study spanned over 72 months and involved a cluster-randomized controlled trial. This research, led by Prof.

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TikTok’s Impact on Youth Mental Health and Public Health Under-Researched, Study Finds

Digital Health Global

TikTok , the rapidly growing social media platform popular among children and young people worldwide, remains surprisingly under-researched in psychology and psychiatry, according to a two-part study. Most of these studies were from the USA and used content analysis as their research method.

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Mental Health at CES 2022 – The Consumer’s Context for Wellbeing in the New Year

Health Populi

As we enter COVID-19’s “junior year,” one unifying experience shared by most humans are feelings of pandemic fatigue: anxiety, grief, burnout, which together diminish our mental health. This week, digital health will span from head to toe, from body (outside and in) to the home and connected car.

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.

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Houston FQHC to deploy AI-based mental health support at no cost

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Federally Qualified Health Center Community Health Network, operating in Brazoria, Harris and Galveston counties in Texas, has partnered with Wysa to integrate its artificial intelligence-guided mental health platform to offer adjunctive behavioral health support throughout patient care journeys and give clinicians and administrators insights.

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

These dynamics and these young health citizens’ coping mechanisms are captured in the report, Coping with COVID-19: How Young People Use Digital Media to Manage Their Mental Health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health challenges have indeed adversely impacted more younger people than people 25 and older.

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One Mind™ Accelerator Announces Second Cohort of Mental Health Startups

Digital Health Global

Ten emerging companies developing innovative mental health solutions will receive $1 million total in investment along with mentoring, coaching, and critical support to transform the lives of people facing mental illness RUTHERFORD, Calif.–(BUSINESS Humans Anonymous is building anonymous audio for mental health.