A5029874218- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Sleep and related disorders
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Social Media in Health Education
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Mental Health via Writing
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Family Support in Illness
- Electronic Health Records Systems
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Health and Medical Studies
Northwestern University
2016-2025
Wolters Kluwer Health
2024-2025
Boston University
2018-2021
Behavioral Tech
2016-2021
University of Michigan
2018
University of Miami
2012-2016
Rush University Medical Center
2015
Objective: This study aimed to document population-level trends in mental health service utilization by college students. Methods: The drew on 10 years of data from the Healthy Minds Study, an annual Web-based survey, with a sample comprising 155,026 students 196 campuses. Analyses focused past-year treatment and lifetime diagnoses condition. Changes symptoms depression suicidal ideation levels stigma were hypothesized as potential explanatory factors. Results: Rates diagnosis increased...
Mental health problems are common and pose a tremendous societal burden in terms of cost, morbidity, quality life, mortality. The great majority people experience barriers that prevent access to treatment, aggravated by lack mental specialists. Digital is potentially useful meeting the treatment needs large numbers people. A growing number efficacy trials have shown strong outcomes for digital treatments. Yet despite their positive findings, there very few examples successful implementations...
Background Smartphones offer the hope that depression can be detected using passively collected data from phone sensors. The aim of this study was to replicate and extend previous work geographic location (GPS) sensors identify depressive symptom severity. Methods We used a dataset 48 college students over 10-week period, which included GPS sensor Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item (PHQ-9) evaluate severity at baseline end-of-study. features were calculated entire study, for weekdays...
Background: Digital mental health tools have tended to use psychoeducational strategies based on treatment orientations developed and validated outside of digital health. These features do not map well the brief but frequent ways that people mobile phones phone apps today. To address these challenges, we a suite for depression anxiety called IntelliCare, each with focused goal interactional style. IntelliCare prioritize interactive skills training over education are designed short interactions.
U.S. health care systems are tasked with alleviating the burden of mental health, but frequently underprepared and lack workforce resource capacity to deliver services all in need. Digital interventions (DMHIs) can increase access evidence-based care. However, DMHIs commonly do not fit into day-to-day activities people who engage them, resulting a research-to-practice gap for DMHI implementation. For settings, differences between digital traditional make alignment integration challenging....
In recent years, there has been an increase in symptoms of depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and other mental illnesses college student populations. Simultaneously, a steady rise the demand for counseling services. These trends have viewed by some as health crisis requiring prompt investigation generation potential solutions to serve needs students. Subsequently, several studies linked observed with ubiquitous use personal computing technologies, including social media, suggested that...
This study explored the influence of depression and fatigue on subjective cognitive complaints objective neuropsychological impairment in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).Data for this were taken from a randomized controlled trial, comparing 16 weeks telephone-administered cognitive-behavioral therapy supportive emotion focused treatment depression. The sample includes 127 MS. following self-report measures collected pre- posttreatment: Perceived Deficits Questionnaire, Beck Depression...
Treatments for depression and anxiety have several behavioral psychological targets rely on varied strategies. Digital mental health treatments often employ feature-rich approaches addressing These treatments, optimized desktop computer use, are at odds with the ways people use smartphone applications. Smartphone tends to focus singular functions easy navigation desired tools. The IntelliCare suite of apps was developed address discrepancy between need diverse strategies constraints imposed...
Background: Is someone at home, their friend's place, a restaurant, or enjoying the outdoors? Knowing semantic location of an individual matters for delivering medical interventions, recommendations, and other context-aware services. This knowledge is particularly useful in mental health care monitoring relevant behavioral indicators to improve treatment delivery. Local search-and-discovery services such as Foursquare can be used detect locations based on global positioning system (GPS)...
Background IntelliCare is a modular platform that includes 12 simple apps targeting specific psychological strategies for common mental health problems. Objective This study aimed to examine the effect of 2 methods maintaining engagement with platform, coaching, and receipt weekly recommendations try different on depression, anxiety, app use. Methods A total 301 participants depression or anxiety were randomized 1 4 treatments lasting 8 weeks followed 6 months posttreatment. The trial used...
Sleep disturbances play an important role in everyday affect and vice versa. However, the causal day-to-day interaction between sleep mood has not been thoroughly explored, partly because of lack daily assessment data. Mobile phones enable us to collect ecological momentary data on a basis noninvasive manner.This study aimed investigate relationship self-reported quality.A total 208 adult participants were recruited report patterns via their mobile for 6 consecutive weeks. Participants 4...
This study estimated the prevalence of self-reported symptoms mental health problems and treatment utilization in a U.S. national sample community college students made comparisons with data from at 4-year educational institutions.The used for 2016-2019 Healthy Minds Study, an annual cross-sectional survey. The included 10,089 23 colleges 95,711 133 institutions. Outcomes were symptom based on validated screening tools rates service utilization, such as use therapy psychotropic medication....
Objective: To recognize gaps between students' expectations of college counseling centers and centers' current practices to identify strategies improve care from both clinicians students. Participants: As part an ongoing study on mobile technologies for stress management, we gathered data center students at two large Midwestern universities. Methods: Clinicians completed online questionnaires their interest in digital mental health tools. Students co-design workshops. In subsequent...
Smartphones are being used with increasing frequency to deliver behavioral interventions for depression via apps. However, barriers specific using an app poorly defined. The purpose of the current study is identify use a mobile treatment depression. Secondarily, design implications will be provided based upon identified barriers.A card sorting task that ranked and grouped apps was completed. Participants first completed identifying face-to-face treatment, as primer identification barriers....
The last decade has seen increased reports of mental health problems among college students, with counseling centers struggling to keep up the demand for services. Digital tools offer a potential solution expand reach services students. In this paper, we present findings from series design activities conducted students and center staff aimed at identifying needs preferences digital tools. Results emphasize social ecosystems support networks in student's life. Our highlight predominant role...
Digital interventions offer great promise for supporting health-related behavior change. However, there is much that we have yet to learn about how people respond them. In this study, present a novel mixed-methods approach analysis of the complex and rich data digital collect. We perform secondary IntelliCare, an intervention in which participants are able try 14 different mental health apps over course eight weeks. The goal our characterize users' app use experiences, rooted theoretical...