ArticleInternet interventions2022
Developing a smartphone App based on the Unified Protocol for the transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders: A qualitative analysis of users and professionals' perspectives.
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- Guiding future research on psychological interventions in people with COVID-19 and post COVID syndrome and comorbid emotional disorders based on a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Efficacy of an internet-based version of the unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders in adolescents (iUP-A): A randomized active-controlled trial.Internet interventions · 2026Article
- Usability and Acceptance by Therapists and Users of an Internet-Based Intervention Based on the Unified Protocol in Argentina.Journal of clinical psychology · 2025Article
- Therapy Companion Mobile App for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Exercises (ACTaide): Therapist and Client Co-Design Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Recommendations for the Development of Psychological Smartphone Applications in the Context of Bariatric Surgery: Focus Groups with Professionals and Patients.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2025Article
- Unified Protocol for Emotional Disorders in University Students: Protocol for a Randomized Trial of Online and Blended Formats.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2025Article
- RegulEm, an unified protocol based-app for the treatment of emotional disorders: a parallel mixed methods usability and quality study.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2024Article
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Abstract
Emotional Disorders have become the most prevalent mental disorders in the world. In relation to their high prevalence, mental health care from public health services faces major challenges. Consequently, finding solutions to deliver cost-effective evidence-based treatments has become a main goal of today's clinical psychology. Smartphone apps for mental health have emerged as a potential tool to deal with it. However, despite their effectiveness and advantages, several studies suggest the need to involve patients and professionals in the design of these apps from the first stage of the development process. Thus, this study aimed to identify, from both a group of users and professionals, the needs, opinions, expectations and design aspects of a future smartphone app based in the Unified Protocol (UP), that will allow to develop the subsequent technical work of the app engineers. Two focus groups were conducted, one with 7 professionals and the other with 9 users, both groups familiar with the UP. A thematic content analysis based in grounded theory was performed in order to define emergent categories of analysis derived from the interview data. The results revealed 8 common topics in both focus groups and 5 specific key topics were identified in the professionals' focus group. Of the total proposals, 93 % of the professionals' and 78 % of the users' are implemented in the preliminary version of the app.
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