Inverse February 9, 2022
Is better-than-nothing good enough?
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC has taken a toll on the mental health of countless Americans. To make matters worse, necessary stay-at-home measures hamper access to care. In the gap, some people have turned to mental-health apps for solace: Some of these claim to provide everything from cognitive behavioral therapy to guided meditation. But a new study published in PLOS Digital Health finds these apps are not backed by the rigorous evidence their claims require — they also just don’t seem to work all that well.
WHAT’S NEW — The meta-review examined 145 studies on phone-based mental-health interventions. Taken together, the authors say the methods used to study these apps are flawed. The research “failed to find convincing...
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