Wearable and Wireless mHealth Technologies for Substance Use Disorder

Goldfine, Charlotte; Lai, Jeffrey T.; Lucey, Evan; Newcomb, Mark; Carreiro, Stephanie

doi:10.1007/s40429-020-00318-8

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“…Tracking gait and sweat can provide feedback on abstinence and intoxication [ 6 , 7 ]. The geographic location can provide pre-programmed text messages to warn against danger areas (proximity to establishments that sell alcohol) [ 8 ].…”

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Leveraging mHealth and Wearable Sensors to Manage Alcohol Use Disorders: A Systematic Literature Review

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Background: Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a condition prevalent in many countries around the world, and the public burden of its treatment is close to $130 billion. mHealth offers several possible interventions to assist in the treatment of AUD. Objectives: To analyze the effectiveness of mHealth and wearable sensors to manage AUD from evidence published over the last 10 years. Methods: Following the Kruse Protocol and PRISMA 2020, four databases were queried (PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, and Science Direct) to identify studies with strong methodologies (n = 25). Results: Five interventions were identified, and 20/25 were effective at reducing alcohol consumption. Other interventions reported a decrease in depression and an increase in medication compliance. Primary barriers to the adoption of mHealth interventions are a requirement to train users, some are equally as effective as the traditional means of treatment, cost, and computer literacy. Conclusion: While not all mHealth interventions demonstrated statistically significant reduction in alcohol consumption, most are still clinically effective to treat AUD and provide a patient with their preference of a technologically inclined treatment Most interventions require training of users and some technology literacy, the barriers identified were very few compared with the litany of positive results.

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Section: Rationalementioning

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Leveraging mHealth and Wearable Sensors to Manage Alcohol Use Disorders: A Systematic Literature Review

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“…A study of the acceptability of VR headsets in older adults found there were positive attitudes, especially after the first use (Huygelier et al, 2019), suggesting that age should be not considered a barrier. Similarly, studies about wearable and wireless mobile Health technologies reported that individuals were open to wearing and using such devices to monitor drug and alcohol use and related parameters for relapse prevention purposes (Goldfine et al, 2020). Moreover, a few participants were concerned that people with mental health issues relating to self-awareness might be confused about which reality they were in, or that people with severe mental health issues might become distressed.…”

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Views of Practitioners and Researchers on the Use of Virtual Reality in Treatments for Substance Use Disorders

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Virtual Reality Therapy (VRT) has been shown to be effective in treating anxiety disorders and phobias, but has not yet been widely tested for Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) and it is not known whether health care practitioners working with SUDs would use VRT if it were available. We report the results of an interview study exploring practitioners’ and researchers’ views on the utility of VRT for SUD treatment. Practitioners and researchers with at least two years’ experience delivering or researching and designing SUD treatments were recruited (n = 14). Interviews were thematically analyzed, resulting in themes relating to the safety and realism of VRT, and the opportunity for the additional insight it could offer to during SUD treatment. Participants were positive about employing VRT as an additional treatment for SUD. VRT was thought suitable for treating adults and people with mental health issues or trauma, provided that risks were appropriately managed. Subsequent relapse, trauma and over-confidence in the success of treatment were identified as risks. The opportunity VRT offered to include other actors in therapy (via avatar use), and observe reactions, were benefits that could not currently be achieved with other forms of therapy. Overall, VRT was thought to offer the potential for safe, realistic, personalized and insightful exposure to diverse triggering scenarios, and to be acceptable for integration into a wide range of SUD treatments.

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“…Other relevant phenotypes can be measured using wearables to capture physiological data such as electrodermal activity, accelerometry, and skin temperature [76]. Additionally, pre-existing imaging data can be used to identify neural features, such as reduction in subcortical integrity, associated with OUD [77].…”

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Accelerating Opioid Use Disorders Research by Integrating Multiple Data Modalities

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Wearable and Wireless mHealth Technologies for Substance Use Disorder

Cited by 31 publications

References 32 publications

Leveraging mHealth and Wearable Sensors to Manage Alcohol Use Disorders: A Systematic Literature Review

Leveraging mHealth and Wearable Sensors to Manage Alcohol Use Disorders: A Systematic Literature Review

Views of Practitioners and Researchers on the Use of Virtual Reality in Treatments for Substance Use Disorders

Accelerating Opioid Use Disorders Research by Integrating Multiple Data Modalities

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