A5062772536- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Physical Activity and Health
- Technology Use by Older Adults
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Emotion and Mood Recognition
- Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Cardiovascular Syncope and Autonomic Disorders
- Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Health and Medical Studies
- Dermatology and Skin Diseases
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Universität Ulm
2019-2024
Background Mobile health apps (MHA) have the potential to improve care. The commercial MHA market is rapidly growing, but content and quality of available are unknown. Instruments for assessment highly needed. Application Rating Scale (MARS) one most widely used tools evaluate MHA. Only few validation studies investigated its metric quality. No study has evaluated construct validity concurrent validity. Objective This evaluates validity, reliability, objectivity, MARS. Methods Data was...
Objectives Physical activity and healthy eating seem to be protective against experiencing stress negative affect as well increase positive affect. At the same time, previous studies showed that people reduce salutogenic behaviours such physical in face of while increasing context Due daily fluctuations these behaviours, present study examined relationships life using ecological momentary assessment ( EMA ). Design methods Fifty‐one university students responded six prompts during 7 days via...
Background Through the increasingly aging population, health care system is confronted with various challenges such as expanding costs. To manage these challenges, mobile apps may represent a cost-effective and low-threshold approach to support older adults. Objective This systematic review aimed evaluate quality, characteristics, well privacy security measures of for adults in European commercial app stores. Methods In Google Play App Store, web crawler systematically searched The...
The college years can be accompanied by mental distress. Internet- and mobile-based interventions (IMIs) have the potential to improve health but adherence is problematic. Psychological guidance might promote resource intensive. In this three-armed randomized controlled trial, “guidance on demand” (GoD) unguided (UG) adherence-promoting versions of seven-module IMI StudiCare Mindfulness were compared with a waitlist control group each other. GoD participants could ask for as needed. A total...
Background Physical inactivity is a major contributor to the development and persistence of chronic diseases. Mobile health apps that foster physical activity have potential assist in behavior change. However, quality mobile available app stores hard assess for making informed decisions by end users care providers. Objective This study aimed at systematically reviewing analyzing content 2 (Google Play App Store) using German version Rating Scale (MARS-G). Moreover, privacy security measures...
Pain spans a broad spectrum of diseases and types that are highly prevalent cause substantial disease burden for individuals society. Up to 40% people affected by pain receive no or inadequate treatment. Providing scalable, time-, location-independent way diagnostic, management, prevention treatment mobile health applications (MHA) might be promising approach improve care pain. However, the commercial app market is rapidly growing unregulated, resulting in an opaque market. Studies...
Background Stress levels and the prevalence of mental disorders in general population have been rising recent years. Chatbot-based interventions represent novel promising digital approaches to improve health-related parameters. However, there is a lack research on chatbot-based area health. Objective The aim this study was investigate effects 3-week intervention guided by chatbot ELME, specifically with respect ability reduce stress various parameters stressed sample. Methods In multicenter...
Interoception is impaired in different psychiatric disorders and also associated with emotions. Only one study could show a higher interoceptive accuracy (IAcc) patients obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Based on the predictive coding system we assume contrary results, indicating decreased IAcc OCD. So far, there no investigating effect of cognitive-behavioral therapy Therefore, hypothesize that OCD improve their during time course compared to healthy controls. Twenty-six from...
Stress levels in the general population had already been increasing recent years, and have subsequently exacerbated by global pandemic. One approach for innovative online-based interventions are "chatbots" - computer programs that can simulate a text-based interaction with human users via conversational interface. Research on efficacy of chatbot-based context mental health is sparse. The present study designed to investigate effects three-week intervention chatbot ELME, aiming reduce stress...
Abstract Interoception describes the ability to perceive internal bodily signals. Previous research found a relationship between interoceptive accuracy (IAcc) and cardiovascular outcomes during or after acute stress. So far, association IAcc long‐term stress has not been investigated, although this would be important identify starting point prevent To address idea in current study, we examined stress, which was assessed with different questionnaires biological markers, including cortisol...
Recent studies showed promising short-term effects of heartbeat perception training on interoceptive abilities. Research the abilities over time is sparse. Therefore, aim this study was to examine and a 3-week abilities, namely, cardiac accuracy (IAc) sensibility (IS). A total 40 healthy participants were randomized intervention group (n = 20) or control 20). The conducted three biofeedback sessions (one per week) at laboratory, whereas watched documentary instead. Interoceptive assessed via...
Abstract. The brain and peripheral bodily organs continuously exchange information. Exemplary, interoception refers to the processing perception of ascending information from body brain. Stress responses involve a neurobehavioral cascade, which includes activation via neural endocrine pathways can thus be seen as an example for descending on brain-body axis. Hence, interaction stress represents bi-directional communication main hypothesis underlying this review is that dysregulation...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Mobile health apps (MHA) have the potential to improve care. The commercial MHA market is rapidly growing, but content and quality of available are unknown. Consequently, instruments high psychometric for assessment highly needed. Application Rating Scale (MARS) one most widely used tools evaluate in various domains. Only few validation studies investigating its exist with selected samples MHAs. No study has evaluated construct validity MARS concurrent other...
Background Previous research has shown that anxiety syndromes are highly prevalent among university students. Effective treatments needed to reduce the burden of in this population. Powerful postures have been found impact affective states, as well interoception (i.e. ability perceive inner bodily signals). However, no previous study compared effects powerful- and neutral regards interoceptive ability. Methods The first part measured single-session effect adopting vs. on students' (n = 57)...
Background Previous studies show that university students experience higher psychological stress than the general population, resulting in increased vulnerability for mental disorders student population. Online mindfulness interventions will be delivered to as a potentially promising and more flexible approach compared face-to-face with aim of improving their health. This study purposes investigate effectiveness guided online mindfulness-focused intervention by using both self-reported...
Previous research has shown reduced interoceptive accuracy (IAcc) in depression. Attention deficit represents a key symptom of Moreover, IAcc is positively correlated with attention. There no study that investigates the effect depression on and The aim this to examine mediating attention.Thirty-six depressed patients from Psychosomatic Clinic Windach were matched 36 healthy controls according age sex assessed at Ulm University. All participants completed Beck Depression Inventory-II,...
Abstract. Objectives: Physical activity (PA) positively influences several aspects of mental well-being including affect improvements. Yet, the fact that subjective and objective measures PA often diverge challenges research on relationship affect. Methods: Subjective (ecological momentary assessment, EMA) (combined heart rate accelerometric tracker) alongside repeated ratings positive negative affects were obtained from 37 participants over 7 consecutive days. Results: significantly...
There is an increasing body of research supporting the idea that cardiac interoceptive accuracy (IAc) can be improved by training. Findings concerning effects a single yoga session on IAc and related construct emotional experience are sparse. The aim this study was to examine if increases improves experience.137 students were randomly assigned 20-min (n = 47), endurance 46), or inactive control condition 44). assessed before after sessions.There no significant changes in IAc, positive...
Abstract Background College is an exciting but also challenging time with increased risk for mental health issues. Only a minority of the college students concerned get professional help, problem that might be improvable by internet- and mobile-based interventions (IMIs). However, adherence IMIs concern. While guidance solution, it resource-intensive, derailing potential implementation on population level. The first aim this trial to evaluate efficacy IMI StudiCare Mindfulness (StudiCare-M)...
Interoceptive accuracy and sensibility are decreased in depressive samples. However, different studies showed that cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) mindfulness interventions promising approaches to improve interoceptive abilities. Based on these findings, the study aims investigate pre-post effect of CBT a sample. Additionally, we examined mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) training context CBT.Sixty patients were investigated over four weeks, with two conditions-CBT vs. + MBSR....
Interoceptive accuracy (IAc), the ability to perceive signals from within body, has been linked many beneficial health outcomes but also psychopathologies such as anxiety disorders. Therefore, its relation a person's subjective well-being (SWB) is unclear. Here, we predicted that individuals who are prone interpreting interoceptive positively benefit IAc and exhibit higher SWB. In contrast, with predispositions towards negative interpretations suffer it, resulting in lower Participants...