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Should we use more Digital Therapy in Clinical Practice?
Abstract
The use of smartphones devices for mental health purposes is rapidly growing, but especially for unguided apps there is a definite lack of evidence. Current meta-analyses suggest moderate effects in the treatment of depressive symptoms, nicotine addiction and social anxiety symptoms; but smartphone treatments seem to have only limited efficacy in treating general anxiety, PTSD, or suicidality (Goreis et al., 2020; Linardon et al., 2019; Weisel et al., 2019). Results for prodromal and early course psychotic symptoms were highly heterogeneous (Camacho et al., 2019). Moreover, a high drop-out rate is reported for smartphone therapies (e.g. Torous et al., 2020).