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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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Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. These companies include BetterHelp , Cerebral, GoodRX, Monument, and Workit Health.

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Litesprite's mobile videogame improves self-reported mental health in small trial

Mobi Health News

A small, 6-week retrospective study published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth found that a behavior health-focused videogame developed by digital health company Litesprite improved self-reported measures of depression, anxiety, and confidence in coping skills.

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Data security – The priority for mHealth apps

Waracle

mHealth apps are mobile applications which utilise the ubiquity, connectivity and flexibility of our smartphones to improve patient’s health. mHealth App transport security. Why is mHealth App security important? mHealth apps need security to be their primary feature. Let’s find out. .

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Only 1 in 4 People Over 50 Use a Mobile Health App – And They Tend to Be Healthier and Wealthier

Health Populi

use at least one mobile health app, and 56% of older people have never used one. Among seven mhealth tools, the most commonly-used is to track exercise. One in 3 older people who use a mobile health app do so for exercise, followed by nutrition (currently adopted by 22% of older folks), weight loss (for 20%), and sleep (17%).

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Therapy App “Innovation” – Research into Mental Health Apps, Part I

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Therapy apps have grown in popularity in recent years as a method for consumers to get inexpensive mental health support from the comfort of their own homes. It would behoove the world for more mental health clinicians to work with researchers to focus on studying and creating safe, clinically useful therapy apps.

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Mental Health Apps: realising the latent potential in cognitive behavioural therapy

Waracle

Advancements in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are allowing mobile health (mHealth) apps to digitise traditional therapies onto web-based platforms. Read on as we discuss the future potential of mental health apps concerning CBT.? . Mental health app review guide?