Article Excerpt: Health apps for smartphones are nothing new. There are a plethora of devices and gadgets available to help us manage our own health and wellness—fitness apps tracking diet and exercise are the most common. And health-care providers are increasingly using sophisticated technology-based medical applications to help patients manage chronic illnesses. Recently, there has also been an increase in applications designed to address behavioral health, including substance abuse and mental illness.
Just because these apps exist, doesn’t mean they work, notes Sarah E. Lord, PhD, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. “There are a lot of apps being developed for depression, PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder), and all sorts of symptom management for a variety of other behavioral health conditions, and we’re not sure that the majority of them has a clear evidence base,” she says.
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