Mobile phone-based interventions have been proposed as a means for reducing the burden
of disease associated with mental illness. While numerous randomized controlled trials and …

Mobile health applications (apps) have transformed the possibilities for health promotion
and disease self-management; however, their promise is not fully realized owing to their …

There has been increasing interest in the use of smartphone applications (apps) and other
consumer technology in mental health care for a number of years. However, the vision of …

Digital mental health services are increasingly endorsed by governments and health
professionals as a low cost, accessible alternative or adjunct to face-to-face therapy. App …

The use of digital technologies in mental health initiatives is expanding, leading to calls for
clearer legal and regulatory frameworks. However, gaps in knowledge about the scale and …

The mobile app rating scale (MARS) is a widely used instrument for evaluating smartphone
app quality. We aimed to examine the reliability and validity of the Korean version of MARS …

Self-care apps offer a wide variety of different therapy paradigms, pedagogies and concepts
for people to maintain and make sense of their mental health. However, as human-made …

Objective: Where traditional approaches fall short, widely accessible and accepted, yet
under leveraged, digital technologies such as text messaging present novel opportunities to …

Background Mobile health (mHealth) apps offer a scalable option for treating sleep
disturbances at a population level. However, there is a lack of clarity about the development …

Objective While the professional version of the Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS) has
already been translated, and validated into the Spanish language, its user-centered …