Accessibility and Digital Mental Health: Considerations for More Accessible and Equitable Mental Health Apps

Digital mental health is often touted as a solution to issues of access to mental health care. However, there has been little research done to understand the accessibility of digital mental health, especially for those with disabilities. In this piece, we define accessibility as it relates to mental...

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Autores principales: Bunyi, John, Ringland, Kathryn E., Schueller, Stephen M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Digital Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8521906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34713206
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2021.742196
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description Digital mental health is often touted as a solution to issues of access to mental health care. However, there has been little research done to understand the accessibility of digital mental health, especially for those with disabilities. In this piece, we define accessibility as it relates to mental health apps, describe the current state of accessibility in the digital world broadly and in mental health apps more specifically, outline why accessibility matters in mental health apps, and identify future steps to better incorporate accessibility into research and development of mental health apps.
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spelling pubmed-85219062021-10-27 Accessibility and Digital Mental Health: Considerations for More Accessible and Equitable Mental Health Apps Bunyi, John Ringland, Kathryn E. Schueller, Stephen M. Front Digit Health Digital Health Digital mental health is often touted as a solution to issues of access to mental health care. However, there has been little research done to understand the accessibility of digital mental health, especially for those with disabilities. In this piece, we define accessibility as it relates to mental health apps, describe the current state of accessibility in the digital world broadly and in mental health apps more specifically, outline why accessibility matters in mental health apps, and identify future steps to better incorporate accessibility into research and development of mental health apps. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8521906/ /pubmed/34713206 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2021.742196 Text en Copyright © 2021 Bunyi, Ringland and Schueller. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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