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Hundreds of Chinese apps have popped up promising to provide support or healing through chatbots, virtual reality or other newfangled technologies.
Experts say AI is set to grow rapidly in psychiatry and therapy, allowing doctors to spot mental illness earlier and improve care. But are the technologies effective – and ethical?
When your therapist is a bot, you can reach it at 2 a.m. But will it really understand your problems?
May 12, 2021 Internet- and smartphone-based care helped with pediatric OCD, depression in adults Mental health interventions delivered online or via a smartphone showed promise for treating kids with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and adults with depressive symptoms as well as comorbid hypertension or diabetes, researchers reported. In a non-inferiority trial of participants with a mean age 13.4 years, the six-month Children’s Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS) score was 11.57 points in the so-called “stepped-care” group versus 10.57 points in the face-to-face treatmen...
email article For kids and adolescents, internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (ICBT) helped treat social anxiety disorder more successfully -- and more cost-effectively -- than internet-delivered supportive therapy (ISUPPORT), a Swedish, single-masked randomized trial found. At baseline, youths ages 10 to 17 had a mean Clinician Severity Rating (CSR) score of 5.06 in the ICBT group and 4.94 in the ISUPPORT group. At 3-month follow-up, the groups had mean scores of 3.96 and 4.48, respectively (between-group effect size d=0.67, 95% CI 0.21-1.12), reported Martina Nordh, PhD...