Becky Appleton summarises a recent Delphi study that led to the development of the first clinical guidelines for implementing digital technology within mental healthcare for young people with suicidal thoughts and behaviours.
[read the full story...]Apps for depression and anxiety: big new meta-analysis supports effectiveness
In their debut blog, Lee Valentine summarises a large-scale updated meta-analysis investigating the effectiveness of mental health apps for depression and anxiety.
[read the full story...]Digital self-help for bulimia recovery: encouraging results for waiting list management
In her debut blog, Ana Julia Ferreira summarises a randomised controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of a digital self-help intervention for improving bulimic-spectrum disorder symptomatology while on a treatment waiting list.
[read the full story...]Digitally augmented CBT for child anxiety is more efficient and no less effective than typical parent-led CBT
Helen Dodd summarises a recent non-inferiority randomised controlled trial led by Cathy Creswell, which investigated the effectiveness of digitally augmented parent-led CBT for child anxiety.
[read the full story...]Digital CBT can help people with depression or anxiety and comorbid long-term medical conditions
Stephanie Loukieh summarises the COMPASS trial, which presents promising results for digitally delivered CBT for depression and anxiety related to living with a long-term physical health condition.
[read the full story...]Are chatbots the answer to minimising inequalities in treatment access?
Robert Meadows considers the findings of a recent paper on the use of artificial intelligence chatbots in increasing self-referrals to mental health services.
[read the full story...]Is brief text messaging effective to reduce repeat hospital-treated self-harm?
Amelia Mullett summarises an Australian RCT on the efficacy of a short message service brief contact intervention (SMS-SOS) in reducing repetition of hospital-treated self-harm.
[read the full story...]Watch yourself! Investigating the efficacy of remotely delivered video feedback in Cognitive Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder (CT-SAD)
KCL Masters student Katherine Jolly considers a study on internet-delivered compared to face-to-face video feedback to update negative self-perceptions in iCBT for social anxiety disorder.
[read the full story...]The enforced use of cameras in patients’ bedrooms may not reduce the incidence of self-harm
John Baker looks at a recent study of the Oxevision system, which claims that their ‘vision-based patient monitoring’ reduces self-harm on acute mental health wards.
[read the full story...]Trigger warnings: to use, or not to use? That is the question
A group of leading researches at Orygen Australia review a recent meta-analysis on the efficacy of trigger and content warnings on media outlets that indicates warnings may not be as helpful as we thought.
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