Inside Precision Medicine July 18, 2024
Combining smartphone apps with wearable devices can support people as they wait to start psychiatric treatment, trial findings suggest.
The findings indicate that digital interventions can be used as supplemental tools within healthcare systems to support patients during waiting-list delays in psychiatric care.
Effective evidence-based apps that offered mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and Fitbits or smartwatches that tracked sleep and activity and offered positive messages were all beneficial.
The results ran contrary to the researchers’ hypothesis that adding CBT or mindfulness apps to the Fitbit/smartwatch messages would offer extra benefits, except in the case of mindfulness reducing suicide risk.
Depression, anxiety, and the risk of suicide all dropped in people scheduled for outpatient psychiatric care who used the...
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