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PTSD Coach around the world.

Eric Kuhn, Christianne van der Meer, Jason E Owen, Julia E Hoffman, Richard Cash, Pasqualina Carrese, Miranda Olff, Anne Bakker, Julia Schellong, Patrick Lorenz and 6 more

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Article in mHealth, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Eric KuhnVA National Center for PTSD, VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Christianne van der MeerAcademic Medical Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jason E OwenVA National Center for PTSD, VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Julia E HoffmanVA National Center for PTSD, VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Richard CashPhoenix Australia, Department of Psychiatry, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Pasqualina CarreseVeterans Affairs Canada, Montreal, Canada.
Miranda OlffAcademic Medical Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Anne BakkerAcademic Medical Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Julia SchellongDepartment of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Patrick LorenzDepartment of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Matthias SchoppDepartment of Computer Science, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Munich, Germany.
Heinrich RauGerman Armed Forces Center for Military Mental Health (Psychotraumazentrum), Berlin, Germany.
Kerstin WeidnerDepartment of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Filip K ArnbergNational Centre for Disaster Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Martin CernvallNational Centre for Disaster Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Thomas IversenDepartment of Psychology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a global public health problem. Unfortunately, many individuals with PTSD do not receive professional care due to a lack of available providers, stigma about mental illness, and other concerns. Technology-based interventions, including mobile phone applications (apps) may be a viable means of surmounting such barriers and reaching and helping those in need. Given this potential, in 2011 the U.S Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD released PTSD Coach, a mobile app intended to provide psycho-education and self-management tools for trauma survivors with PTSD symptoms. Emerging research on PTSD Coach demonstrates high user satisfaction, feasibility, and improvement in PTSD symptoms and other psychosocial outcomes. A model of openly sharing the app's source code and content has resulted in versions being created by individuals in six other countries: Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and Denmark. These versions are described, highlighting their significant adaptations, enhancements, and expansions to the original PTSD Coach app as well as emerging research on them. It is clear that the sharing of app source code and content has benefited this emerging PTSD Coach community, as well as the populations they are targeting. Despite this success, challenges remain especially reaching trauma survivors in areas where few or no other mental health resources exist.

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mobile applications (mobile apps)Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)public healthsmartphonestrauma

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PMID29963560
PMCPMC5994444

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