Browsing Digital Medicine by Issue Date
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A Smartphone App (BlueIce) for Young People Who Self-Harm: Open Phase 1 Pre-Post Trial
(2018-01-30)Background: Recent years have seen a significant increase in the availability of smartphone apps for mental health problems. Despite their proliferation, few apps have been specifically developed for young people, and ... -
Web-based rehabilitation interventions for people with rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic review
(2018-04)Background: Rehabilitation approaches for people with rheumatoid arthritis include joint protection, exercises and self-management strategies. Health interventions delivered via the web have the potential to improve access ... -
Qualitative Analysis of Remote Consultations (QuARC): A study of technology-enhanced consultations in diabetes, cancer and heart failure
(2018-07)Background Remote video consulting is promoted by policymakers as a way of delivering healthcare efficiently to an ageing population with rising rates of chronic illness. As a radically new service model, it brings operational ... -
An online survey of young adolescent girls’ use of the internet and smartphone apps for mental health support
(2018-07)Background Adolescents are digital natives, with the majority now owning their own smartphones and having internet access. Although the internet and smartphone applications (apps) can provide mental health support, little ... -
Automated psychological therapy using immersive virtual reality for treatment of fear of heights: a single-blind, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial
(2018-08)Background: Engaging, interactive, and automated virtual reality (VR) treatments might help solve the unmet needs of individuals with mental health disorders. We tested the efficacy of an automated cognitive intervention ... -
Technology Delivered Interventions for Depression and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
(2018-09)Depression and anxiety are common during adolescence. Whilst effective interventions are available treatment services are limited resulting in many adolescents being unable to access effective help. Delivering mental health ... -
Harnessing mobile devices to support the delivery of community-based clinical care: a participatory evaluation
(2019)Background:A large provider of community health services (an NHS Trust in England) deployed Apple iPads to its front-line community-based healthcare clinicians (predominantly nurses) to enable them to increase responsiveness ... -
Automated psychological therapy using virtual reality (VR) for patients with persecutory delusions: study protocol for a single-blind parallel-group randomised controlled trial (THRIVE)
(2019-01)Persecutory delusions are a major psychiatric problem and are associated with a wide range of adverse outcomes. Our theoretical model views these delusions as unfounded threat beliefs which persist due to defence behaviours ... -
Characterizing the Digital Health Citizen: Mixed-Methods Study Deriving a New Typology
(2019-03)Background: A key challenge for health systems harnessing digital tools and services is that of digital inclusion. Typically, digital inequalities are conceptualized in relation to unequal access or usage. However, these ... -
Innovations in Practice: Avatar-based virtual reality in CAMHS talking therapy: two exploratory case studies
(2019-03)Background: Avatar-based virtual reality therapy is an emerging digital technology that can be used to assist the treatment of common mental health problems. This may be particularly appealing to young people who are ... -
Can Your Phone Be Your Therapist? Young People’s Ethical Perspectives on the Use of Fully Automated Conversational Agents (Chatbots) in Mental Health Support
(2019-03)Over the last decade, there has been an explosion of digital interventions that aim to either supplement or replace face-to-face mental health services. More recently, a number of automated conversational agents have also ... -
Usability of Health Information Websites Designed for Adolescents: Systematic Review, Neurodevelopmental Model, and Design Brief
(2019-04)Background: Adolescence is a unique developmental period characterized by biological, social, and cognitive changes, as well as an interest in managing one’s own health care. Many adolescents use the internet to seek health ... -
Hummingbird Study: a study protocol for a multicentre exploratory trial to assess the acceptance and performance of a digital medicine system in adults with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or first-episode psychosis
(2019-06)Introduction: In patients with schizophrenia, medication adherence is important for relapse prevention, and effective adherence monitoring is essential for treatment planning. A digital medicine system (DMS) has been ... -
Predicting motor, cognitive & functional impairment in Parkinson’s
(2019-07)Objective: We recently demonstrated that 998 features derived from a simple 7-minute smartphone test could distinguish between controls, people with Parkinson’s and people with idiopathic Rapid Eye Movement sleep behavior ... -
Automated virtual reality (VR) cognitive therapy for patients with psychosis: study protocol for a single-blind parallel group randomised controlled trial (gameChange).
(2019-08)Introduction Many patients with psychosis experience everyday social situations as anxiety-provoking. The fears can arise, for example, from paranoia, hallucinations, social anxiety or negative-self beliefs. The fears lead ... -
A Path Signature Approach for Speech Emotion Recognition
(2019-09)Automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a difficult task within human-computer interaction, despite increasing interest in the research community. One key challenge is how to effectively integrate short-term ... -
A usability study to test the effectiveness, efficiency and simplicity of a newly developed Internet-based Exercise-focused Health App for Lung cancer survivors (iEXHALE): Protocol paper
(2019-10)The Internet-based Exercise-focused Health App for Lung cancer survivors (iEXHALE) is a mobile web app being developed to provide lung cancer survivors with an algorithm-based, tailor-made, self-management programme to ... -
Why Health Care Professionals Belong to an Intensive Care Virtual Community: Qualitative Study
(2019-11)Background: Clinical practice variation that results in poor patient outcomes remains a pressing problem for health care organizations. Some evidence suggests that a key factor may be ineffective internal and professional ... -
Development of an app for lung cancer survivors (iEXHALE) to increase exercise activity and improve symptoms of fatigue, breathlessness and depression
(2019-11)Objective Exercise‐based self‐management interventions are recommended for lung cancer survivors and can provide physical, psychosocial and emotional relief. Mobile health technologies can encourage self‐management; ... -
Clinicians’ use of and attitudes towards technology to provide and support interventions in child and adolescent mental health services
(2019-12)Background:Technology can increase child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) capacity by sup-porting and delivering interventions, yet it has not been widely adopted by CAMHS child mental health professionals. ...
