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Consumer Smartphone Apps Marketed for Child and Adolescent Anxiety: A Systematic Review and Content Analysis
- Source :
- Behavior Therapy. 49:249-261
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- Anxiety disorders are collectively the most prevalent mental health problems affecting youth. To increase the reach of mental health care, recent years have seen increasing enthusiasm surrounding mobile platforms for expanding treatment delivery options. Apps developed in academia and supported in clinical trials are slow to reach the consumer marketplace. Meanwhile, proliferation of industry-developed apps on consumer marketplaces has been high. The present study analyzed content within mobile products prominently marketed toward consumers for anxiety in youth. Systematic inventory of the Google Play Store and Apple Store using keyword searches for child and adolescent anxiety yielded 121 apps, which were evaluated on the basis of their descriptive characteristics, mobile functionalities, and adherence to evidence-based treatment principles. Findings revealed that evidence-based treatment content within the sample is scant and few comprehensive anxiety self-management apps were identified. Advanced features that leverage the broader functionalities of smartphone capabilities (e.g., sensors, ecological momentary assessments) were rarely present. Findings underscore the need to increase the prominence and accessibility of quality child anxiety intervention products for consumers. Strategies for improving marketing of supported apps to better penetrate consumer markets are discussed.
- Subjects :
- 050103 clinical psychology
Adolescent
media_common.quotation_subject
Internet privacy
Article
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Leverage (negotiation)
Intervention (counseling)
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Quality (business)
Child
mHealth
media_common
Enthusiasm
business.industry
05 social sciences
Anxiety Disorders
Mobile Applications
Mental health
Telemedicine
030227 psychiatry
Clinical Psychology
Content analysis
Anxiety
Smartphone
medicine.symptom
Psychology
business
Social psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00057894
- Volume :
- 49
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Behavior Therapy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c3c0f28d7abec4b7099cf882392f764d