The Use of Digital Applications and COVID-19

Mobile health apps are becoming increasingly popular amongst users who are turning to digital platforms to aid their mental wellbeing. As a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare staff as well as recovering patients may suffer from PTSD. We have therefore suggested to Reyes et al. (“Pro...

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Autores principales: Alexopoulos, Arion R., Hudson, Jake G., Otenigbagbe, Oluwatomisin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Fresh Focus
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7391475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32734311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00689-2
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description Mobile health apps are becoming increasingly popular amongst users who are turning to digital platforms to aid their mental wellbeing. As a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare staff as well as recovering patients may suffer from PTSD. We have therefore suggested to Reyes et al. (“Promoting Resilience Among College Student Veterans Through an Acceptance-and-Commitment-Therapy App: An Intervention Refinement Study”, 2020) the importance of repurposing their app to help these users to improve their emotional resilience and subsequently their ability to cope with the trauma of their experience. We have also discussed the most pertinent barriers to mobile health app uptake including data privacy concerns and the role of stigma.
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spelling pubmed-73914752020-07-31 The Use of Digital Applications and COVID-19 Alexopoulos, Arion R. Hudson, Jake G. Otenigbagbe, Oluwatomisin Community Ment Health J Fresh Focus Mobile health apps are becoming increasingly popular amongst users who are turning to digital platforms to aid their mental wellbeing. As a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare staff as well as recovering patients may suffer from PTSD. We have therefore suggested to Reyes et al. (“Promoting Resilience Among College Student Veterans Through an Acceptance-and-Commitment-Therapy App: An Intervention Refinement Study”, 2020) the importance of repurposing their app to help these users to improve their emotional resilience and subsequently their ability to cope with the trauma of their experience. We have also discussed the most pertinent barriers to mobile health app uptake including data privacy concerns and the role of stigma. Springer US 2020-07-30 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7391475/ /pubmed/32734311 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00689-2 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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