A technology-assisted life of recovery from psychosis

Ben‐Zeev, Dror; Buck, Benjamin; Kopelovich, Sarah L.; Meller, Suzanne

doi:10.1038/s41537-019-0083-y

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“…Text messaging using mobile phones appears to be supportive in patient recovery, even in severe mental illness involving psychosis. 81 It has been shown that telehealth is equivalent to in-person care in respect of accuracy of diagnosis, effectiveness of therapy, quality of care and satisfaction of patients . 82 For example, telehealth problem solving therapy was shown to be as efficacious as face-to-face therapy in depressed low-income homebound elderly adults.…”

Section: Digital Technologies In Mental Health Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and global mental health

Lange

2021

Global Health Journal

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The mental health effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may shape population health for many years to come. Failure to address the mental health issues stemming from the pandemic is likely to prolong its impact. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a significant global challenge and, in lower-income countries, even a disruption of mental health services. Given our experience with previous pandemics, the present COVID-19 crisis can be expected to cause psychological trauma, and steps are needed to address this issue proactively. A focus on the long-term mental health consequences may be at least as important as the measures currently seeking to mitigate the short-term effects of COVID-19 and to save lives. The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for mental health call for a greater focus on the needs of those with mental disorders and on mental health issues affecting health care workers and the general public. Timely preventive and therapeutic mental health care is essential in addressing the psychosocial needs of populations exposed to the pandemic. In addition to specialist care, “task-shifting” and digital technologies may provide cost-effective means of providing mental health care in lower-income countries worldwide as well as in higher-income countries with mental health services overwhelmed by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In view of the ever-increasing pressure on global health systems resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, adopting and adapting “task-shifting”, i.e. the delegation of psychotherapeutic interventions to trained non-specialists, as an element of the provision of mental health services, is overdue. Digital technologies can be used to enhance social support and facilitate resilience to the detrimental mental health effects of the pandemic; they may also offer an efficient and cost-effective way to provide easy access to mental health care.

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Section: Digital Technologies In Mental Health Carementioning

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and global mental health

Lange

2021

Global Health Journal

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“…Thus, the field's next steps will also be critical in ensuring digital health is used today to deliver the best care during the current crisis, ready for any resulting mental health spike following the immediate crisis, and prepared to support future crises as well as care as usual. In this perspective piece, we draw largely from our team's experience with digital health and recognize the impressive global innovation and research in this space that cannot be captured in any single piece [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

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Digital Mental Health and COVID-19: Using Technology Today to Accelerate the Curve on Access and Quality Tomorrow

Torous¹,

Myrick²,

et al. 2020

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As interest in and use of telehealth during the COVID-19 global pandemic increase, the potential of digital health to increase access and quality of mental health is becoming clear. Although the world today must “flatten the curve” of spread of the virus, we argue that now is the time to “accelerate and bend the curve” on digital health. Increased investments in digital health today will yield unprecedented access to high-quality mental health care. Focusing on personal experiences and projects from our diverse authorship team, we share selected examples of digital health innovations while acknowledging that no single piece can discuss all the impressive global efforts past and present. Exploring the success of telehealth during the present crisis and how technologies like apps can soon play a larger role, we discuss the need for workforce training, high-quality evidence, and digital equity among other factors critical for bending the curve further.

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“…1) does not do justice to the many excellent apps not mentioned and the teams behind each one mentioned. FOCUS (Ben-Zeev et al, 2019) from Dr. Dror Ben-Zeev, and PRIME (Schlosser et al, 2018) from Dr. Danielle Schlosser, Intellicare from Dr. David Mohr (Mohr et al, 2017), and CBT2Go (Depp et al, 2019) from Dr. Colin Depp as just some examples of mobile health tools for SMI. Using digital phenotyping and smartphone surveys/sensors to better monitor patients' real time, longitudinal, and dynamic experience of mental health is feasible with apps like mindLAMP from our group , Cross Check from Dr. John Kane (Ben-Zeev et al, 2017) and many others like the MONARCHA by Dr. Jakob Bardram plus many more (Bardram and Mati, 2020) These smartphone digital data streams can be used predict relapse (Barnett et al, 2018), and create personalized care plans responsive to the psychological and social environments of patients.…”

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