ReviewFrontiers in digital health2021
Marketplace and Literature Review of Spanish Language Mental Health Apps.
Review in Frontiers in digital health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Characteristics of Mobile Health Platforms for Depression and Anxiety: Content Analysis Through a Systematic Review of the Literature and Systematic Search of Two App Stores.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
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- Comparing content within a culturally-adapted digital treatment for Hispanic patients with alcohol use disorder.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Accelerating Digital Mental Health: The Society of Digital Psychiatry's Three-Pronged Road Map for Education, Digital Navigators, and AI.JMIR mental health · 2025Article
- Implementing Digital Mental Health Tools in the Public Behavioral Health Systems: A Multi-City/County Evaluation of California's Help@Hand Project.Research square · 2025Article
- Championing Hypertension Remote Monitoring for Equity and Dissemination (CHARMED): A multi-site factorial randomized controlled trial protocol.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- Assessing Health Technology Literacy and Attitudes of Patients in an Urban Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic: Cross-Sectional Survey Study.JMIR mental health · 2024Article
- Early Attrition Prediction for Web-Based Interpretation Bias Modification to Reduce Anxious Thinking: A Machine Learning Study.JMIR mental health · 2024Article
- Sync fast and solve things-best practices for responsible digital health.NPJ digital medicine · 2024Article
- Pragmatic Approach to the Assessment and Use of Digital Mental Health Interventions for Health Workers.American journal of public health · 2024Review
- A randomized controlled trial of the dissemination of an mHealth intervention for improving health outcomes: the WiseApp for Spanish-speakers living with HIV study protocol.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Parent and clinician perceptions and recommendations on a pediatric cancer pain management app: A qualitative co-design study.PLOS digital health · 2023Article
- Optimizing an Outpatient mHealth Intervention for Children with Burns: A Convergent Mixed-Methods Study.Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association · 2023Article
- Multilevel Determinants of Digital Health Equity: A Literature Synthesis to Advance the Field.Annual review of public health · 2023Review
- A Digital Single-Session Intervention Platform for Youth Mental Health: Cultural Adaptation, Evaluation, and Dissemination.JMIR mental health · 2023Article
- Assessment of Mental Health Services Available Through Smartphone Apps.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- ePSICONUT: An e-Health Programme to Improve Emotional Health and Lifestyle in University Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Assessment of Smartphone Apps for Common Neurologic Conditions (Headache, Insomnia, and Pain): Cross-sectional Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2022Article
- Evaluating the quality, safety, and functionality of commonly used smartphone apps for bipolar disorder mood and sleep self-management.International journal of bipolar disorders · 2022Article
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Abstract
Language differences between patients and providers remains a barrier to accessing health care, especially mental health services. One potential solution to reduce inequities for patients that speak different languages and improve their access to care is through the delivery of healthcare through mobile technology. Given that the Latinx community serves as the largest ethnic minority in the United States, this two-phased review examines Spanish app development, feasibility and efficacy. Phase 1 explored the commercial marketplace for apps available in Spanish, while phase 2 involved a literature review of published research centered around the creation, functions, and usability of these apps using the PubMed and Google Scholar electronic databases. Of the apps available on the database, only 14.5% of them had Spanish operability. The literature search uncovered 629 results, of which 12 research articles that tested or described 10 apps met the inclusion criteria. Of the 10 apps studied in this literature review, only four apps were translated to Spanish. Our study reveals that despite increasing interest in Spanish-language apps to address mental health, the commercial marketplace is not currently meeting the demand.
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