Opportunities to Integrate Mobile App–Based Interventions Into Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Services in the Wake of COVID-19

Satre, Derek D.; Meacham, Meredith C.; Asarnow, Lauren D.; Fisher, Weston S.; Fortuna, Lisa R.; Iturralde, Esti

doi:10.1177/08901171211055314

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“…One possibility to reduce the cost of this and other apps could be by integrating the apps into PLWH’s health care and make them covered under this insurance program. However, health systems are still in the early stages of integrating mobile apps into care and further research is needed to understand how to best integrate apps into care and how to meet both patient and provider needs [ 67 ].…”

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HIV patients’ perceptions of a potential multi-component mindfulness-based smoking cessation smartphone application intervention

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Objectives Cigarette smoking rates among people living with HIV (PLWH) in the US is triple that of the general population. PLWH smokers are a high-risk group for smoking-related health disparities and should be a prime focus for smoking cessation efforts. Our team has developed a novel evidence-based Mindfulness Training (MT) smoking cessation smartphone application (app), “Craving-to-Quit.” Using qualitative focus groups among PLWH smokers, this study aims to tailor and optimize the app’s content and design to PLWH’s unique psychosocial profile and needs. Methods We conducted 8 focus groups among PLWH smokers (n = 59; 47.5% females; ≥18 years) to gain insight into participants’ perceptions about the app, MT, and the feasibility and acceptability of adding two additional strategies (CM: Contingency Management; self-monitoring of anti-retroviral therapies intake [ART]) to further optimize the app. Participants were asked to practice MTs and watch videos from the app presented on a screen in the conference room to discuss their experience. Sessions were audio-taped, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed thematically using NVivo. Results Most participants were non-Hispanic black (67.8%), on a federal health insurance program (61.0%). Participants considered it easy to learn the app and thought that MT is helpful in reducing stress and motivating quit attempts and were supportive of adding CM and recommended providing $20-$50 weekly cash incentives to help in quitting. Participants felt that adding self-monitoring of ART is helpful but were concerned about confidentiality in case they lost their phone. Participants recommended making the app cost-free and adding information about smoking cessation medications and the negative effects of smoking among PLWH. Conclusions Findings will guide the development of a novel multi-component smoking cessation intervention app integrating MT, CM, and ART self-monitoring strategies. This intervention has the potential to address several barriers to quitting in PLWH. Further clinical research is needed to test this intervention.

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HIV patients’ perceptions of a potential multi-component mindfulness-based smoking cessation smartphone application intervention

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“…A Canadian review identified 31 mobile apps and more than 100 internet sites of potential benefit for mental health [59] and reports began to appear about which mental health apps and other digital solutions were used by people with mental disorders in times of the pandemic (see, for example, Dahmen and coworkers for a study in Germany [60]). Satre and coworkers [61] described the opportunities that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic to integrate mobile app-based interventions into mental healthcare. These opportunities were influenced by increasing rates of mental disorders during the pandemic in parallel with treatment access limitations.…”

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Adapting and Implementing Apps for Mental Healthcare

Zielasek

Reinhardt

Schmidt

2022

Curr Psychiatry Rep

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Purpose of ReviewTo describe examples of adapting apps for use in mental healthcare and to formulate recommendations for successful adaptation in mental healthcare settings. Recent FindingsInternational examples are given to explore implementation procedures to address this multitude of challenges. Summary There are only few published examples of adapting apps for use in mental healthcare. From these examples and from results of studies in implementation science in general clinical settings, it can be concluded that the process of adapting apps for mental healthcare needs to address clinician training and information needs, user needs which include cultural adaptation and go beyond mere translation, and organizational needs for blending app use into everyday clinical mental healthcare workflows.

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“…Social sciences research has been inclining towards computer- and web-based testing for more than a decade now, emphasizing that new technologies can overcome the long-standing limitations of small and homogenous samples [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic only heightened the need for online tools for app-based interventions into mental health [ 5 ], primary care [ 6 ] and, importantly, online testing (e.g., the Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks app or Naming and Inductive Reference app developed by the Multilingual Language Development and Assessment Lab (MultiLADA) at the University of Warsaw, or the Touchscreen Task for Toddlers developed at Oxford University BabyLab). This is particularly visible in developmental research since access to child participants during the pandemic was radically limited in various countries from the beginning of the pandemic [ 7 , 8 ].…”

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Parental Report via a Mobile App in the Context of Early Language Trajectories: StarWords Study Protocol

Mieszkowska

Krajewski

Sobota

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IJERPH

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Social sciences researchers emphasize that new technologies can overcome the limitations of small and homogenous samples. In research on early language development, which often uses parental reports, taking the testing online might be particularly compelling. Due to logistical limitations, previous studies on bilingual children have explored the language development trajectories in general (e.g., by including few and largely set apart timepoints), or focused on small, homogeneous samples. The present study protocol presents a new, on-going study which uses new technologies to collect longitudinal data continuously from parents of multilingual, bilingual, and monolingual children. Our primary aim is to establish the developmental trajectories in Polish-British English and Polish-Norwegian bilingual children and Polish monolingual children aged 0–3 years with the use of mobile and web-based applications. These tools allow parents to report their children’s language development as it progresses, and allow us to characterize children’s performance in each language (the age of reaching particular language milestones). The project’s novelty rests on its use of mobile technologies to characterize the bilingual and monolingual developmental trajectory from the very first words to broader vocabulary and multiword combinations.

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Opportunities to Integrate Mobile App–Based Interventions Into Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Services in the Wake of COVID-19

Cited by 25 publications

References 65 publications

HIV patients’ perceptions of a potential multi-component mindfulness-based smoking cessation smartphone application intervention

HIV patients’ perceptions of a potential multi-component mindfulness-based smoking cessation smartphone application intervention

Adapting and Implementing Apps for Mental Healthcare

Parental Report via a Mobile App in the Context of Early Language Trajectories: StarWords Study Protocol

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