Khosravi Mohsen, Azar Ghazaleh
Department of Healthcare Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Department of Consultation and Mental Health, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Iran.
Glob Ment Health (Camb). 2024 Apr 4;11:e43. doi: 10.1017/gmh.2024.39. eCollection 2024.
Global mental health services face challenges such as stigma and a shortage of trained professionals, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, which hinder access to high-quality care. Mobile health interventions, commonly referred to as mHealth, have shown to have the capacity to confront and solve most of the challenges within mental health services. This paper conducted a comprehensive investigation in 2024 to identify all review studies published between 2000 and 2024 that investigate the advantages of mHealth in mental health services. The databases searched included PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane and ProQuest. The quality of the final papers was assessed and a thematic analysis was performed to categorize the obtained data. 11 papers were selected as final studies. The final studies were considered to be of good quality. The risk of bias within the final studies was shown to be in a convincing level. The main advantages of mHealth interventions were categorized into four major themes: 'accessibility, convenience and adaptability', 'patient-centeredness', 'data insights' and 'efficiency and effectiveness'. The findings of the study suggested that mHealth interventions can be a viable and promising option for delivering mental health services to large and diverse populations, particularly in vulnerable groups and low-resource settings.
全球心理健康服务面临着诸如耻辱感和训练有素的专业人员短缺等挑战,尤其是在低收入和中等收入国家,这些因素阻碍了人们获得高质量的护理。移动健康干预措施,通常称为mHealth,已显示出有能力应对和解决心理健康服务中的大多数挑战。本文在2024年进行了一项全面调查,以确定2000年至2024年期间发表的所有调查mHealth在心理健康服务中的优势的综述研究。搜索的数据库包括PubMed、Scopus、Cochrane和ProQuest。对最终论文的质量进行了评估,并进行了主题分析以对获得的数据进行分类。11篇论文被选为最终研究。最终研究被认为质量良好。最终研究中的偏倚风险显示处于令人信服的水平。mHealth干预措施的主要优势被分为四个主要主题:“可及性、便利性和适应性”、“以患者为中心”、“数据洞察”以及“效率和有效性”。该研究的结果表明,mHealth干预措施对于为大量不同人群提供心理健康服务可能是一个可行且有前景的选择,尤其是在弱势群体和资源匮乏的环境中。