The Mental Health App Marketplace is a Mess, Researchers Find
The Mental Health App Marketplace is a Mess, Researchers Find Harvard psychiatrists perform a comprehensive analysis of the mental health apps marketplace and find misinformation. 19 The issues commonly associated with mental health apps are made worse by misleading app marketplace metrics. In response, a team of Harvard psychiatrists led by John Torous has created an assessment framework and a public database of hundreds of apps to extend previous research into apps’ limited functionality and clinical utility. To assess these apps, the researchers developed an assessment framework that th...
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