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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021

Smartphone Psychological Therapy During COVID-19: A Study on the Effectiveness of Five Popular Mental Health Apps for Anxiety and Depression.

Jamie M Marshall, Debra A Dunstan, Warren Bartik

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. The effects of COVID-19 on European healthcare provision for working-age adults with major depressive disorder.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2023
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  7. "All Day, Every Day, Listening to Trauma": Investigating Features of Digital Interventions for Empathy-Based Stress and Burnout.Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems. CHI Conference
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jamie M MarshallSchool of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.
Debra A DunstanSchool of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.
Warren BartikSchool of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.
University of New England · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aims of this study were to examine the effectiveness of a range of smartphone apps for managing symptoms of anxiety and depression and to assess the utility of a single-case research design for enhancing the evidence base for this mode of treatment delivery. The study was serendipitously impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which allowed for effectiveness to be additionally observed in the context of significant community distress. A pilot study was initially conducted using the

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anxietyCOVID-19depressionmental health appsmHealthsingle-case designsmartphones

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PMID35069357
PMCPMC8771308
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