ArticleBMC psychiatry2022
Analysis of E-mental health research: mapping the relationship between information technology and mental healthcare.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Scope, Characteristics, Behavior Change Techniques, and Quality of Conversational Agents for Mental Health and Well-Being: Systematic Assessment of Apps.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
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- An mHealth App to Increase Engagement in Mental Health Services for Depression and Anxiety: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
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- Health workers' perception of digital technology use to improve mental health services.Journal of public health in Africa · 2025Article
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- Parents' knowledge and attitudes towards extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and their post-traumatic stress symptoms.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- eHealth tools use and mental health: a cross-sectional network analysis in a representative sample.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- E-mental health in Germany - what is the current use and what are experiences of different types of health care providers for patients with mental illnesses?Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2023Article
- A Multilingual Digital Mental Health and Well-Being Chatbot (ChatPal): Pre-Post Multicenter Intervention Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Chronic Diseases and Sociodemographic Characteristics Associated With Online Health Information Seeking and Using Social Networking Sites: Nationally Representative Cross-sectional Survey in Japan.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- What Comes after the Trial? An Observational Study of the Real-World Uptake of an E-Mental Health Intervention by General Practitioners to Reduce Depressive Symptoms in Their Patients.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Observational
- The association between digitalization and mental health: The mediating role of wellbeing at work.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundE-mental healthcare is the convergence of digital technologies with mental health services. It has been developed to fill a gap in healthcare for people who need mental wellbeing support that may not otherwise receive psychological treatment. With an increasing number of e-mental healthcare and research, this study aimed to investigate the trends of an e-mental health research field that integrates interdisciplinary fields and to examine the information technologies is being used in mental healthcare. To achieve the research objectives, bibliometric analysis, information extraction, and network analysis were applied to analyze e-mental health research data.
methodsE-mental health research data were obtained from 3663 bibliographic records from the Web of Science (WoS) and 3172 full-text articles from PubMed Central (PMC). The text mining techniques used for this study included bibliometric analysis, information extraction, and visualization.
resultsThe e-mental health research topic trends primarily involved e-health care services and medical informatics research. The clusters of research comprised 16 clusters, which refer to mental sickness, e-health, diseases, information technology (IT), and self-management. The information extraction analysis revealed a triple relation with IT and biomedical domains. Betweenness centrality was used as a measure of network graph centrality, based on the shortest path to rank the important entities and triple relation; nodes with higher betweenness centrality had greater control over the network because more information passes through that node. The IT entity-relations of "mobile" had the highest score at 0.043466. The top pairs were related to depression, mobile health, and text message.
conclusionsE-mental related publications were associated with various research fields, such as nursing, psychology, medical informatics, computer science, telecommunication, and healthcare innovation. We found that trends in e-mental health research are continually rising. These trends were related to the internet of things (IoT) and mobile applications (Apps), which were applied for mental healthcare services. Moreover, producing AI and machine learning for e-mental healthcare were being studied. This work supports the appropriate approaches and methods of e-mental health research that can help the researcher to identify important themes and choose the best fit with their own survey work.
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