A5101402350- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Mental Health via Writing
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Community Health and Development
University of British Columbia
2022-2025
Background: Integrated youth services (IYS) provide low-barrier, accessible, interdisciplinary mental health and substance use (MHSU) to in order improve their social outcomes. Foundry, an IYS British Columbia, Canada, launched virtual 2020, along with the Foundry BC app, accessible all ages 12-24. Services include counselling, peer support, physical/sexual care, work/study support. Using have a choice of audio, video, or chat sessions integrated care team. Despite promising growth service...
Background: Digital solution is one of the major pillars integrated care. However, as a form digital health, current mobile health (mHealth) tools and interventions for youth mental are highly unregulated lack engagement in design, development, implementation stages. Evidence suggests that most mHealth expensive to develop have short shelf life. To date, limited research exists understand how youth, developers, providers design application within an service. The objective this study was...
Background: Integrated youth services (IYS) provide low-barrier, accessible, interdisciplinary mental health and substance use (MHSU) to in order improve their social outcomes. Foundry, an IYS British Columbia, Canada, launched virtual 2020, along with the Foundry BC app, accessible all ages 12-24. Services include counselling, peer support, physical/sexual care, work/study support. Using have a choice of audio, video, or chat sessions integrated care team. Despite promising growth service...
A total of 75% people with mental health disorders have an onset illness between the ages 12 and 24 years. Many in this age group report substantial obstacles to receiving quality youth-centered care services. With rapid development technology recent COVID-19 pandemic, mobile (mHealth) has presented new opportunities for youth research, practice, policy.
Abstract Aim Integrated youth services (IYS) have been identified as a national priority in response to the mental health and substance use (MHSU) crisis Canada. In British Columbia (BC), an IYS initiative called Foundry expanded 11 physical centres launched virtual service. The aim of study was describe demographics clients patterns service utilization during this expansion, along with impact COVID‐19 pandemic. Methods Data were analysed for all (ages 12–24) accessing both in‐person (April...
TikTok is a global social media platform with over 1 billion active users. Presently, there are few data on how users navigate the for mental health purposes and content they view. This study aims to understand patterns of health-related assesses accuracy quality advice information provided. We performed summative analysis top 1000 videos hashtag #mentalhealth between October 12 16, 2021. Six themes were developed code data: (1) personal story, perspective, or confessional, (2) information,...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has made significant advancements in healthcare. A key application of AI mental health is the use AI-powered chatbots; however, empirical evidence on their effectiveness remains limited. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This study explored stakeholder perceptions integrating youth services, focusing its potential benefits, challenges, usefulness, and regulatory implications. <title>METHODS</title> qualitative utilized...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> A total of 75% people with mental health disorders have an onset illness between the ages 12 and 24 years. Many in this age group report substantial obstacles to receiving quality youth-centered care services. With rapid development technology recent COVID-19 pandemic, mobile (mHealth) has presented new opportunities for youth research, practice, policy. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> The research objectives were (1) synthesize current evidence supporting...