ReviewBMJ mental health2023
Digital mental health: challenges and next steps.
Review in BMJ mental health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 113 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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113 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Healthcare professionals' perspectives and/or experiences of digital mental health tools in clinical practice: a systematic review and thematic synthesis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Optimizing Workplace Digital Mental Health Interventions: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Instruments in Spanish to Assess the Mental Health of Adults With Intellectual Disabilities. A Systematic Review.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID · 2025Pooled it
- Using Digital Phenotyping to Discriminate Unipolar Depression and Bipolar Disorder: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Barriers and Facilitators of User Engagement With Digital Mental Health Interventions for People With Psychosis or Bipolar Disorder: Systematic Review and Best-Fit Framework Synthesis.JMIR mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Assessing the Impact of Evidence-Based Mental Health Guidance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Systematic Review and Qualitative Evaluation.JMIR mental health · 2023Pooled it
- The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Psychology: How AI and NLP Systems Are Reshaping Psychological Interventions. A Systematic Review.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyPooled it
- Smoking Cessation Smartphone App for Nondaily Smoking With Telephone Onboarding: Proof-of-Concept Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Trial
- Validation of the AI mental health Therapy Attitude, Perception, and Intention Scale (AiTAPI).Internet interventions · 2026Article
- Inclusive Digital Health Strategies for Persons With Disabilities: A Scoping Review.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Research agenda to advance anhedonia assessment, understanding and treatment: an ECNP-GALENOS expert meeting report.BMJ mental health · 2026Review
- Exploring Patients' Experiences in a Blended Transdiagnostic Group Treatment: Qualitative Study.JMIR human factors · 2026Article
- Digitalization of Intervention Delivery and Its Impact on the Effects of Interventions for Mental Well-Being in Higher Education Students: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocol.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- A Narrative Review of Ethical Issues in Precision Psychiatry: Mapping Unresolved Tensions Across Modalities.Journal of personalized medicine · 2026Review
- Building evidence on digital psychotherapies for adults living with depression: a systematic scoping review of populations, interventions and design features of ongoing and planned randomised controlled trials.BMJ mental health · 2026Article
- Digital Tools to Support Mental Health in Later Life: Scoping Review of Systematic Reviews.Current psychiatry reports · 2026Article
- Cost-effectiveness of digital health interventions for supporting mental health of children and young people: a rapid review and narrative synthesis.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Review
- Students' Perspectives on Digital Psychotherapy-Possible Solutions for Digital Inpatient-Like Care Concepts: Qualitative Interview Study.JMIR medical education · 2026Article
- Comprehensive Model for Mental health Access and service use (CoMMA): A process model for technology-enhanced mental healthcare.Internet interventions · 2026Review
- Using normalization process theory to evaluate the implementation of a hybrid psychosocial prevention intervention in mental health care - a qualitative interview study.BMC health services research · 2026Article
53 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Digital innovations in mental health offer great potential, but present unique challenges. Using a consensus development panel approach, an expert, international, cross-disciplinary panel met to provide a framework to conceptualise digital mental health innovations, research into mechanisms and effectiveness and approaches for clinical implementation. Key questions and outputs from the group were agreed by consensus, and are presented and discussed in the text and supported by case examples in an accompanying appendix. A number of key themes emerged. (1) Digital approaches may work best across traditional diagnostic systems: we do not have effective ontologies of mental illness and transdiagnostic/symptom-based approaches may be more fruitful. (2) Approaches in clinical implementation of digital tools/interventions need to be creative and require organisational change: not only do clinicians and patients need training and education to be more confident and skilled in using digital technologies to support shared care decision-making, but traditional roles need to be extended, with clinicians working alongside digital navigators and non-clinicians who are delivering protocolised treatments. (3) Designing appropriate studies to measure the effectiveness of implementation is also key: including digital data raises unique ethical issues, and measurement of potential harms is only just beginning. (4) Accessibility and codesign are needed to ensure innovations are long lasting. (5) Standardised guidelines for reporting would ensure effective synthesis of the evidence to inform clinical implementation. COVID-19 and the transition to virtual consultations have shown us the potential for digital innovations to improve access and quality of care in mental health: now is the ideal time to act.
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