Empowering 8 Billion Minds: Enabling Better Mental Health for All via the Ethical Adoption of Technologies

Doraiswamy, P. Murali; London, Elisha; Varnum, Peter; Saxena, Shekhar; Tottman, Simon; Campbell, Sir Philip; Ibáñez, Alvaro Fernández; Manji, Husseini K.; Olama, Mohammad Abdul Aziz Sultan Al; Chou, I-han; Herrman, Helen; Jeong, Sung‐Jin; Tan, Lihai; Montojo, Caroline A.; Reve, Bjarte; Rommelfanger, Karen S.; Stix, Charlotte; Thakor, Nitish V.; Chow, Hei Man; Welchman, Andrew E.; Candeias, Vanessa

doi:10.31478/201910b

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“…The tendency for humans to form attachments to anthropomorphized robots should be carefully considered during design (Riek and Howard, 2014 ; Riek, 2016 ). Moreover, for fear that the robot could replace human health care from both patients and the professional caregivers, it should be emphasized that the rehabilitation robots are developed with the aim of supplementing human caregivers, rather than replacing them (Doraiswamy et al, 2019 ).…”

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“…The goal of robotic cognitive rehabilitation is to provide cost-effective cognitive training to vulnerable people with cognitive disabilities, which can supplement their caregivers and/or therapists (Doraiswamy et al, 2019 ). Therefore, we encourage the idea of user-driven, instead of technology-driven, robot design and development (Rehm et al, 2016 ).…”

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A Systematic Review of Robotic Rehabilitation for Cognitive Training

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A large and increasing number of people around the world experience cognitive disability. Rehabilitation robotics has provided promising training and assistance approaches to mitigate cognitive deficits. In this article, we carried out a systematic review on recent developments in robot-assisted cognitive training. We included 99 articles in this work and described their applications, enabling technologies, experiments, and products. We also conducted a meta analysis on the articles that evaluated robot-assisted cognitive training protocol with primary end users (i.e., people with cognitive disability). We identified major limitations in current robotics rehabilitation for cognitive training, including the small sample size, non-standard measurement of training and uncontrollable factors. There are still multifaceted challenges in this field, including ethical issues, user-centered (or stakeholder-centered) design, the reliability, trust, and cost-effectiveness, personalization of the robot-assisted cognitive training system. Future research shall also take into consideration human-robot collaboration and social cognition to facilitate a natural human-robot interaction.

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A Systematic Review of Robotic Rehabilitation for Cognitive Training

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“…The most recurrent expected benefit associated with the use of digital mental health is the prospect of increased accessibility to health care (18)(19)(20)(21). This assessment was based on the increased affordability of mental health apps or internet-based platforms in comparison to face-to-face consultations (22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27) and the easy access given the liberation of geographical restraints (22)(23)(24)(25)(28)(29)(30). This potential benefit is of ethical significance because increased access to healthcare is a critical to promote health equality and justice.…”

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“…Another important theme was the potential of digital mental health technologies to increase the autonomy and sense of empowerment of young adults (24,29,32). The use of digital mental health tools gives youngsters, on the one hand, the chance to play a more active role in their own treatment as they can actively seek support or control difficult situations (18,20,25,26,29,31,32), as well as the pace of answering/responding (26).…”

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Digital Mental Health for Young People: A Scoping Review of Ethical Promises and Challenges

Wies

Landers

Ienca

2021

Front. Digit. Health

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Mental health disorders are complex disorders of the nervous system characterized by a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Mental illness is of particular concern for younger people. The WHO estimates that around 20% of the world's children and adolescents have a mental health condition, a rate that is almost double compared to the general population. One approach toward mitigating the medical and socio-economic effects of mental health disorders is leveraging the power of digital health technology to deploy assistive, preventative, and therapeutic solutions for people in need. We define “digital mental health” as any application of digital health technology for mental health assessment, support, prevention, and treatment. However, there is only limited evidence that digital mental health tools can be successfully implemented in clinical settings. Authors have pointed to a lack of technical and medical standards for digital mental health apps, personalized neurotechnology, and assistive cognitive technology as a possible cause of suboptimal adoption and implementation in the clinical setting. Further, ethical concerns have been raised related to insufficient effectiveness, lack of adequate clinical validation, and user-centered design as well as data privacy vulnerabilities of current digital mental health products. The aim of this paper is to report on a scoping review we conducted to capture and synthesize the growing literature on the promises and ethical challenges of digital mental health for young people aged 0–25. This review seeks to survey the scope and focus of the relevant literature, identify major benefits and opportunities of ethical significance (e.g., reducing suffering and improving well-being), and provide a comprehensive mapping of the emerging ethical challenges. Our findings provide a comprehensive synthesis of the current literature and offer a detailed informative basis for any stakeholder involved in the development, deployment, and management of ethically-aligned digital mental health solutions for young people.

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“…''Few have access to care, but most have access to a digital device,'' the common argument goes, suggesting the narrowing digital divide provides a way to close the treatment gap. The promises of technology -as is often the case -are depicted as nothing short of revolutionary: The point of care and data collection moves into the patient's pocket; local constraint and scarcity can be circumvented and millions reached at once at unprecedented scale (Doraiswamy et al, 2019;Pickersgill 2019). However, digital approaches are diverse and this specificity matters (Heerden, Tomlinson, & Swartz, 2012).…”

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Global Mental Health: Interdisciplinary challenges for a field in motion

Bemme

Kirmayer

2020

Transcult Psychiatry

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In recent years, efforts in Global Mental Health (GMH) have evolved alongside critical engagement with the field's claims and interventions. GMH has shifted its agenda and epistemological underpinnings, increased its evidence base, and joined other global policy platforms such as the Sustainable Development Goals. This editorial introduction to a thematic issue traces the recent shifts in the GMH agenda and discusses the changing construct of ''mental health'' as GMH moves away from a categorical biomedical model toward dimensional and transdiagnostic approaches and embraces digital technologies. We highlight persistent and emerging lines of inquiry and advocate for meaningful interdisciplinary engagement. Taken together, the articles in this special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry provide a snapshot of current interdisciplinary work in GMH that considers the socio-cultural and historical dimensions of mental health important and proposes reflexive development of interventions and implementation strategies.

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Empowering 8 Billion Minds: Enabling Better Mental Health for All via the Ethical Adoption of Technologies

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A Systematic Review of Robotic Rehabilitation for Cognitive Training

A Systematic Review of Robotic Rehabilitation for Cognitive Training

Digital Mental Health for Young People: A Scoping Review of Ethical Promises and Challenges

Global Mental Health: Interdisciplinary challenges for a field in motion

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