ReviewHarvard review of psychiatry
mHealth Assessment and Intervention of Depression and Anxiety in Older Adults.
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- Pooled it
- Determining the impact of mobile-based self-care applications on reducing anxiety in healthcare providers: a systematic review.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2025Pooled it
- The efficacy of mobile health in alleviating risk factors related to the occurrence and development of coronary heart disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical cardiology · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of a Text Message-Based Lifestyle Intervention on HbA1c and Health Behaviors in Older Adults with Prediabetes.Nutrients · 2026Trial
- Efficacy of a Mobile Health-Based Behavioral Treatment for Lifestyle Modification in Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management: Greenhabit Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Trial
- Brief report: Aging adult utilization of an mHealth intervention for problem drinking.Frontiers in public health · 2024Trial
- Utility of Tablet-Based Eye Tracking for Early Screening of Poststroke Cognitive Impairment: Diagnostic Cohort Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Article
- Designing digital mental health interventions for older adults: a scoping review.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- The Impact of Mobile Health Interventions on Mental Health Literacy: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2025Article
- Sustainable development goals: a call for future internal medicine.Internal and emergency medicine · 2025Review
- Digital interventions for common mental health problems among older adults in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Examining State Affective and Cognitive Outcomes Following Brief Mobile Phone-Based Training Sessions to Reduce Anxious Interpretations.Cognitive therapy and research · 2025Article
- Exploring Long-Term Determinants and Attitudes Toward Smartphone-Based Commercial Health Care Applications Among Patients With Cancer.JCO clinical cancer informatics · 2024Article
- A longitudinal study of a mHealth app and regional policies on the uptake of postpartum depression referral after positive screening in Shenzhen.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
- Digital and precision clinical trials: innovations for testing mental health medications, devices, and psychosocial treatments.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024Review
- Mobile-based ecological momentary assessment and intervention: bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Applications to augment patient care for Internal Medicine specialists: a position paper from the EFIM working group on telemedicine, innovative technologies & digital health.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
- Psychometric validation of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in community-dwelling older adults.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Implementing digital mental health interventions at scale: one-year evaluation of a national digital CBT service in Ireland.International journal of mental health systems · 2023Article
- Editorial: Reducing health disparities: promoting vulnerable older adults' psychological health.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Mobile technology is increasingly being used to enhance health and wellness, including in the assessment and treatment of psychiatric disorders. Such applications have been referred to collectively as mHealth, and this article provides a comprehensive review and clinical perspective of research regarding mHealth in late-life mood and anxiety disorders. The novel data collection offered by mHealth has contributed to a broader understanding of psychopathology, to an increased diversity of psychological interventions, and to novel methods of assessment that may ultimately provide individually adaptive mental health care for this population. Older adults face challenges (e.g., transportation, mobility) that limit their ability to receive medical and mental health care services, and mHealth may improve the capacity to reach this population. Although several mobile interventions exist for health-related issues in older adults (e.g., balance, diabetes, medication management), mHealth targeting psychiatric disorders is limited and most often focuses on problems related to dementia, cognitive dysfunction, and memory loss. Given that depression and anxiety are two of the most common mental health concerns among this population, mHealth has strong potential for broad public health interventions that may improve effectiveness of mental health care via individualized assessments and treatments.
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