ReviewInternational journal of bipolar disorders2020
Smartphones in mental health: a critical review of background issues, current status and future concerns.
Review in International journal of bipolar disorders, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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51 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Sensing Apps and Public Data Sets for Digital Phenotyping of Mental Health: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- Evaluating the Effects of a Self-Help Mobile Phone App on Worry and Rumination Experienced by Young Adults: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2024Trial
- Quantitative EEG of frontal and central cortices during calm memory retrieval in schizophrenia.Discover mental health · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of online family connections for family members of people with BPD: a naturalistic comparison with the face-to-face format.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2026Article
- Digital Cognitive-Motor Occupational Training with QEEG Monitoring in Schizophrenia Rehabilitation: An Exploratory Neurofunctional Study.Occupational therapy international · 2026Article
- The use of a smartphone app for self-monitoring by patients with bipolar disorder being treated in a primary care setting.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Article
- Mobile apps, AI, and teletherapy: a comprehensive review of digital mental health tools for nurses.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Feasibility and acceptability of collecting passive phone usage and sensor data via Apple SensorKit.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Optimising the use of electronic medical records for large scale research in psychiatry.Translational psychiatry · 2024Review
- Validating the efficacy and value proposition of mental fitness vocal biomarkers in a psychiatric population: prospective cohort study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Self-Guided Mental Health Apps Targeting Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups: Scoping Review.JMIR mental health · 2023Article
- Wearable and Mobile Technologies for the Evaluation and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Scoping Review.JMIR mental health · 2023Article
- Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of Digital Interventions for Depressive Symptoms in Working Adults: Multiarm Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Telepsychiatry in an Era of Digital Mental Health Startups.Current psychiatry reports · 2023Review
- Use of digital technologies by users of psychiatric inpatient services in Berlin, Germany: a cross-sectional patient survey.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Lithium levels and lifestyle in patients with bipolar disorder: a new tool for self-management.International journal of bipolar disorders · 2023Article
- Post-COVID-19: can digital solutions lead to a more equitable global healthcare workforce?BJPsych international · 2023Article
- Healthcare professionals' knowledge, attitude and its associated factors toward electronic personal health record system in a resource-limited setting: A cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Access and use of digital technology by patients with psychosis at a hospital in South Africa.The South African journal of psychiatry : SAJP : the journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa · 2023Article
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Abstract
There has been increasing interest in the use of smartphone applications (apps) and other consumer technology in mental health care for a number of years. However, the vision of data from apps seamlessly returned to, and integrated in, the electronic medical record (EMR) to assist both psychiatrists and patients has not been widely achieved, due in part to complex issues involved in the use of smartphone and other consumer technology in psychiatry. These issues include consumer technology usage, clinical utility, commercialization, and evolving consumer technology. Technological, legal and commercial issues, as well as medical issues, will determine the role of consumer technology in psychiatry. Recommendations for a more productive direction for the use of consumer technology in psychiatry are provided.
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