There may be an app – thousands in fact – for that, but do they really help? Mental health apps (MHA) are big business. The global market was said to be $32.4 billion last year, and it will eclipse ...
In January, PLOS Digital Health published a study which claimed that there’s “sparse” data to support the efficacy of most mental health apps. In their meta-analysis of published studies ...
However, not all mental health apps are effective or safe. They often aren’t regulated or supported by independent research, and most aren’t compliant with HIPAA. 3 What this means is that apps can ...
Then Adrian Aguilera, an associate professor in the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF, asked Rivera and several others to test a ...