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Contributions of mobile technologies to addiction research
Mobile technologies are revolutionizing the field of mental health, and particular progress has been made in their application to addiction research and treatment. The use of smartphones and other mobile devices has been shown to be feasible with individuals addicted to any of a wide range of substa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4969708/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27489461 |
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author | Swendsen, Joel |
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description | Mobile technologies are revolutionizing the field of mental health, and particular progress has been made in their application to addiction research and treatment. The use of smartphones and other mobile devices has been shown to be feasible with individuals addicted to any of a wide range of substances, with few biases being observed concerning the repeated monitoring of daily life experiences, craving, or substance use. From a methodological point of view, the use of mobile technologies overcomes longstanding limitations of traditional clinical research protocols, including the more accurate assessment of temporal relationships among variables, as well as the reduction in both contextual constraints and discipline-specific methodological isolation. The present article presents a conceptual review of these advances while using illustrations of research applications that are capable of overcoming specific methodological barriers. Finally, a brief review of both the benefits and risks of mobile technology use for the treatment of patients will be addressed. |
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spelling | pubmed-49697082016-08-03 Contributions of mobile technologies to addiction research Swendsen, Joel Dialogues Clin Neurosci Clinical Research Mobile technologies are revolutionizing the field of mental health, and particular progress has been made in their application to addiction research and treatment. The use of smartphones and other mobile devices has been shown to be feasible with individuals addicted to any of a wide range of substances, with few biases being observed concerning the repeated monitoring of daily life experiences, craving, or substance use. From a methodological point of view, the use of mobile technologies overcomes longstanding limitations of traditional clinical research protocols, including the more accurate assessment of temporal relationships among variables, as well as the reduction in both contextual constraints and discipline-specific methodological isolation. The present article presents a conceptual review of these advances while using illustrations of research applications that are capable of overcoming specific methodological barriers. Finally, a brief review of both the benefits and risks of mobile technology use for the treatment of patients will be addressed. Les Laboratoires Servier 2016-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4969708/ /pubmed/27489461 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Institut la Conférence Hippocrate - Servier Research Group http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Clinical Research Swendsen, Joel Contributions of mobile technologies to addiction research |
title | Contributions of mobile technologies to addiction research |
title_full | Contributions of mobile technologies to addiction research |
title_fullStr | Contributions of mobile technologies to addiction research |
title_full_unstemmed | Contributions of mobile technologies to addiction research |
title_short | Contributions of mobile technologies to addiction research |
title_sort | contributions of mobile technologies to addiction research |
topic | Clinical Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4969708/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27489461 |
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