ReviewThe American psychologist2020
Scaling evidence-based treatments through digital mental health.
Review in The American psychologist, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 105 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Digital Interventions As an Add-on Tool in Generalized Anxiety Disorder Treatment: a Randomized Clinical Trial
Effectiveness of the Guided and Traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Protocol in a Patient With Treatment-resistant Panic Disorder
Who cites it
105 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Could the use of web-based applications assist in neuropsychiatric treatment? An umbrella review.BMC psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Digital Mental Health Interventions for University Students With Mental Health Difficulties: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- The Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance of Digital Mental Health Interventions for College Students: A Systematic Review.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Pooled it
- Outcomes of Best-Practice Guided Digital Mental Health Interventions for Youth and Young Adults with Emerging Symptoms: Part I. A Systematic Review of Socioemotional Outcomes and Recommendations.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Patient Engagement with Conversational Agents in Health Applications 2016-2022: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical systems · 2024Pooled it
- Providing Human Support for the Use of Digital Mental Health Interventions: Systematic Meta-review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
- Remote mental health care interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: An umbrella review.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Pooled it
- The Dosage, Context, and Modality of Interventions to Prevent Cyberbullying Perpetration and Victimization: a Systematic Review.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Pooled it
- Evidence Base on Outpatient Behavioral Treatments for Adolescent Substance Use, Update 2018-2023: Current Status, Best Practices, and Opportunities for Advancing the Science.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Pooled it
- Does mental health coaching improve efficacy of transcranial magnetic stimulation for major depression? A pilot randomized controlled trial and benchmarking study.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Trial
- App-based skills training to reduce problem drinking among adult internet help-seekers: a double-blinded randomized controlled trial.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2026Trial
- An online randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of an online intervention for parents/guardians of children aged 4-7 years old who are concerned about their children's emotional and behavioural development: EMERGENT study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Trial
- Randomized Controlled Trial of "Bounce Back Now," a Mobile App to Reduce Post-Disaster Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress, Depressed Mood, and Sleep Disturbance.The American journal of psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Capitalizing on natural language processing (NLP) to automate the evaluation of coach implementation fidelity in guided digital cognitive-behavioral therapy (GdCBT).Psychological medicine · 2025Trial
- A qualitative analysis of healthcare professionals' experiences with an internet-based emotion regulation intervention added to acute psychiatric inpatient care.BMC psychiatry · 2024Trial
- Engagement, Acceptability, and Effectiveness of the Self-Care and Coach-Supported Versions of the Vira Digital Behavior Change Platform Among Young Adults at Risk for Depression and Obesity: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mental health · 2024Trial
- App-Based Mindfulness for Attenuation of Subjective and Physiological Stress Reactivity in a Population With Elevated Stress: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2023Trial
- Feasibility and effect of adding a concurrent parental component to a school-based wellness program using two modes of mobile-based technology - mixed methods evaluation of RCT.BMC public health · 2022Trial
- Barriers and facilitators of mental health app use among young women - a multimethod study.BMC women's health · 2026Article
- Therapists' time allocation in guided digital mental health interventions - A scoping review and case study.Internet interventions · 2026Review
45 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
A large number of Internet websites, mobile apps, wearable devices, and video games that are hoped to improve behavioral, cognitive, and affective targets associated with mental health have been developed. Although technology provides the promising potential to help spread evidence-based mental health treatments, that potential is still largely unrealized. The vast majority of technology-based mental health products, deemed digital mental health interventions (DMHIs), have not been tested and show little fidelity to evidence-based treatments. Furthermore, best practices around the use of technologies in clinical services are underdeveloped and few clinicians have been trained to integrate these tools in their practice. We present an overview of DMHIs and discuss key aspects related to their implementation. We organize these aspects according to the Consolidating Framework for Implementation Research, a framework that identifies constructs related to effective implementation. These constructs are categorized into 5 domains including characteristics of DMHIs, the individuals involved, associated processes, the inner setting, and the outer setting. Our goal is to highlight key areas of consideration for leveraging technology to support the implementation of evidence-based treatments and to emphasize challenges and opportunities that come from using technology to scale evidence-based mental health treatments. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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