Advancing the Actionability of Mental Health Information: Identifying Online, Evidence-Based Mental Health Resources.

Alyssa M Herman, Alayna L Park, Cameron Lee, Hannah Paul, Emma G Choplin, Lily Deitcher, Sabrin Ghuman, Jeremiah Hartsock, Eric A Youngstrom

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Article in Administration and policy in mental health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Alyssa M HermanDepartment of Psychology, University of Oregon, 1227 University St, Eugene, OR, 97403, USA. aherman2@uoregon.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-7978-6015

Alayna L ParkDepartment of Psychology, University of Oregon, 1227 University St, Eugene, OR, 97403, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8869-4438

Cameron LeeDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Hannah PaulDepartment of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Emma G ChoplinDepartment of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8262-7787

Lily DeitcherDepartment of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Sabrin GhumanPalo Alto University, Los Altos, CA, USA.

Jeremiah HartsockSchool of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0810-8430

Eric A YoungstromDepartment of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2251-6860

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Abstract

To improve the dissemination and actionability of mental health research, many mental health professionals have developed online informational resources to increase the general public's awareness of mental health difficulties and available treatments. Yet, limited information exists on the quality and scope of these resources. This study aimed to explore the scope and quantity of online, free, evidence-based mental health resources. Fifty-two mental health professionals nominated 178 resources, which predominantly consisted of homepages and links to more information. When reviewing the original nominations, our team identified an additional 290 resources (e.g., fact sheets linked from a nominated homepage). Of the 468 total nominated resources, 72 were screened out due to not meeting the inclusion criteria of being free (inter-screener reliability = 95%), evidence-based (inter-screener reliability = 94%), and online (inter-screener reliability = 96%). Nominated resources most commonly covered anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (n = 67) and suicide (n = 60). Resources providing information about the mental health problem were most common (n = 210) and resources providing information about immediate help (e.g., hotline) were least common (n = 57). Our findings indicate many free, online, evidence-based resources are available and raise questions of whether efforts to disseminate mental health research are recreating the issue of information overload. Other considerations and future directions for improving the utilization and synthesizing of available resources are discussed.

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Mental HealthSuicideAnxiety DisordersHealth ResourcesHumansReproducibility of ResultsDisseminationEvidence-based informationKnowledge-to-actionMental health

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PMID37266799

DOI10.1371/journal.pone.0233996

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