mHealth Intelligence December 4, 2023
Anuja Vaidya

Research supports the efficacy of mHealth apps in treating depression, but certain intervention components, like treatment length, can impact efficacy.

While mHealth application-based interventions are effective in treating moderate and severe depression, certain factors impact their efficacy, like in-app notifications and the length of treatment delivery, recent research shows.

Published last month in JAMA Network Open, the study aims to provide insight into the characteristics associated with benefiting from the use of mHealth app interventions for depression. Researchers from South Korea searched the PubMed, Embase, and PsycINFO databases from their inception to January 22, 2023, for randomized clinical trials (RCTs) evaluating mHealth apps that treat adults with moderate to severe depression.

The researchers assessed relevant studies, their risk of bias,...

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