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Towards Social Media as DTx in Psychiatry? Current opportunities and pitfalls
ABSTRACT: Software-driven therapeutic interventions aiming at preventing, managing or treating medical or chronic diseases are referred to as Digital Therapeutics (DTx). DTx are developed to target a specific disorder or disease, including mental disorders. DTx are regarded as an emerging class of m...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10392994/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2023.192 |
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description | ABSTRACT: Software-driven therapeutic interventions aiming at preventing, managing or treating medical or chronic diseases are referred to as Digital Therapeutics (DTx). DTx are developed to target a specific disorder or disease, including mental disorders. DTx are regarded as an emerging class of medicines and, hence, have obtained the approval of the relevant regulatory authorities, based on clinical evidence for the effectiveness similar to conventional medicine supplies and medicines. Social media-based DTx can represent both a means to quantify mental health as well as a source of both positive and negative interactions, including a source of social support for many who have been socially isolated and lonely. Recent researches using monitored social networks as interventions has shown promise in youth with several mental health issues, despite it is noteworthy that social media are not without risks. DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST: None Declared |
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spelling | pubmed-103929942023-08-02 Towards Social Media as DTx in Psychiatry? Current opportunities and pitfalls Orsolini, L. Eur Psychiatry Abstract ABSTRACT: Software-driven therapeutic interventions aiming at preventing, managing or treating medical or chronic diseases are referred to as Digital Therapeutics (DTx). DTx are developed to target a specific disorder or disease, including mental disorders. DTx are regarded as an emerging class of medicines and, hence, have obtained the approval of the relevant regulatory authorities, based on clinical evidence for the effectiveness similar to conventional medicine supplies and medicines. Social media-based DTx can represent both a means to quantify mental health as well as a source of both positive and negative interactions, including a source of social support for many who have been socially isolated and lonely. Recent researches using monitored social networks as interventions has shown promise in youth with several mental health issues, despite it is noteworthy that social media are not without risks. DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST: None Declared Cambridge University Press 2023-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10392994/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2023.192 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstract Orsolini, L. Towards Social Media as DTx in Psychiatry? Current opportunities and pitfalls |
title | Towards Social Media as DTx in Psychiatry? Current opportunities and pitfalls |
title_full | Towards Social Media as DTx in Psychiatry? Current opportunities and pitfalls |
title_fullStr | Towards Social Media as DTx in Psychiatry? Current opportunities and pitfalls |
title_full_unstemmed | Towards Social Media as DTx in Psychiatry? Current opportunities and pitfalls |
title_short | Towards Social Media as DTx in Psychiatry? Current opportunities and pitfalls |
title_sort | towards social media as dtx in psychiatry? current opportunities and pitfalls |
topic | Abstract |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10392994/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2023.192 |
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