Digital Mental Health Interventions

Gamified human-AI collaborative system integrating painting therapy reduces adolescent depression and increases motivation in randomized controlled trial.

Study reveals that emotional support and practical assistance drive user relationships with mental health chatbots, with trust and satisfaction as outcomes rather than predictors.

Survey of 187 users examined how commercial data practices in fertility and menstruation apps influence user perception, revealing conditional tolerance and interface design effects.

Research presents SPIRIT, a design framework guiding technology interventions for spiritual care in clinical and community settings. Six design dimensions operationalize spiritual support delivery.

Cross-sectional survey of 1228 European residents reveals health professionals are most trusted for app recommendations but informal sources are used more often in practice.

AI-powered medical scribes decrease EHR and documentation time for clinicians while modestly increasing weekly visit volume, suggesting incremental workflow efficiency gains.

Stacking ensemble classifier combines facial video-derived heart rate variability with demographics to screen depression with moderate discrimination. AUROC 0.64 achieved across 1453 individuals.

Dataset of 17,089 Kenyan adolescents measuring depression, anxiety, adverse experiences, and help-seeking behaviors to address mental health evidence gaps in sub-Saharan Africa.

Physician-led evaluation of four large language model chatbots reveals unsafe medical advice rates from 5-13%, with potentially serious consequences for patient care.

Linguistic analysis of 2 million forum comments reveals distinct psychological trajectories in users who leave, stay in, or return to an incel community, with re-engagement marked by reduced.

Scoping review of 72 studies examines how digital technologies facilitate meaningful connections in care homes, identifying gaps in generative AI applications.

Analysis of whether AI represents foundational change or technocratic distraction in public health, emphasizing alignment with equity, prevention, and democratic governance.

Deskly, a Windows desktop wellbeing system using behavioral nudges and local data storage, reduced screen time by 23% and improved wellbeing scores by 17% in a 12-participant pilot.

Study shows that specific mental health symptoms predict how people use flexible reasoning when making complex inferences, with alterations in goal-directed decision-making as a key mechanism.

Implementation of a nurse-led eHealth monitoring model for stem cell transplant recipients, including adaptations for local context and resource constraints.

Long-term use of a video game therapeutic for depression showed no increase in gaming-related problems, with deterioration rates low across all study arms.

Cross-sectional study of 112 adults finds online social support functions as adjunct to traditional support rather than substitute, supporting rich-get-richer hypothesis.

Study evaluates narrative video intervention to improve mental health literacy and reduce stigma among Latinx adults, revealing gender differences and complex factors influencing help-seeking.

Study investigating emotion-adaptive eco-feedback in personal assistants through co-design methodology, generating eight design concepts integrating emotion AI for home energy management.

Phenomenological study examining AI companions' role in emotion regulation support for university students with social anxiety, identifying benefits and technological dependence risks.