Cognitive training using a mobile app as a coping tool against COVID-19 distress: A crossover randomized controlled trial

Leveraging Mobile Health to Manage Mental Health/Behavioral Health Disorders: Systematic Literature Review

“…A total of 11 themes and 2 individual observations were identified by the reviewers for a total of 48 occurrences in the literature, whereas 11 themes and 7 observations were noted for a total of 95 observations. In the 33 studies analyzed, 26 (79%) showed an improvement in symptoms of depression [25,26,[28][29][30][31][32][33][35][36][37][40][41][42][43][44][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][54][55][56], while 19 (58%) showed an improvement in anxiety [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]36,[38][39][40][44][45][46][53][54][55][56]. Only 11/33 (33%) reported that at least one symptom was not statistically significant when compared with results from the control group, but the improvement was still noted [25]…”

“…The following observations only occurred once in the literature: decrease in anger [26], decrease in decision conflict [30], decrease in decision regret [30], decreased digestive disturbance [26], decreased pain [26], increased medication adherence [41], and the intervention had no effect on self-efficacy [34]. [25,26,[28][29][30][31][32][33][35][36][37][40][41][42][43][44][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][54][55][56] 19 Reduced anxiety [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]36,[38][39][40][44][45][46][53]…”

“…Following the PRISMA checklist [20] and the Kruse protocol [21], we extracted the following data fields: participants, intervention, comparison with the control or other group, medical outcomes, and study design (PICOS; Table 1) as a way to summarize study characteristics, as required by PRISMA. Of the 33 studies analyzed over the 1-year period, 17 were from 2021 [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41] and 16 were from 2022 [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57]. All studies were RCTs involving adults, and 48% (16/33) involved an average age of 50 years or above.…”

“…The only difference was 1 study [34] reported no effect on depression or anxiety. [36,41,44,49,54,56,57] 5 Increased mental well-being/cognitive flexibility [45][46][47]49,57] 4 Decreased distress [30,36,43,53] 4 Increased sleep [26,45,47,50] 4 Increased self-efficacy [41,42,44,57] 2 Decreased fatigue/increased resilience [45,46] 1 Decreased anger [26] 1 Decreased decision conflict [30] 1 Decreased decision regret [30] 1 Decreased digestive disturbance [26] 1 Decreased pain [26] 1 Increased medication adherence [41] 1 None [34]…”

“…Two studies reported no effects on mental health from the intervention [34,57]. [25,26,[28][29][30][31][32][33][35][36][37][40][41][42][43][44][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][54][55][56] 19 Reduced anxiety [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]36,[38][39][40][44][45][46][53][54][55][56] 7 Increased quality of life [36,41,44,49,…”