Browsing Digital Medicine by Title
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The NICE Evidence Standards Framework for digital health and care technologies – Developing and maintaining an innovative evidence framework with global impact
(2021-06)Objective: In 2018, the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), in partnership with Public Health England, NHS England, NHS Improvement and others, developed an evidence standards framework (ESF) for ... -
Online mood monitoring in treatment-resistant depression: qualitative study of patients' perspectives in the NHS
(2020-01)Aims and method True Colours is an automated symptom monitoring programme used by National Health Service psychiatric services. This study explored whether patients with unipolar treatment-resistant depression (TRD) found ... -
Online patient feedback: a scoping review and stakeholder consultation
(2020-04)Objective To provide a synthesis of the current evidence base of online patient feedback using a scoping review and a consultation of stakeholders in England, UK. Methods We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CINAHL ... -
Online peer support training to promote adolescents’ emotional support skills, mental health and agency during COVID-19: A pilot randomised controlled trial
(2021-08)Background: Adolescents often look to their peers for emotional support, so it is critical that they are prepared to take on a supportive role, especially during a health crisis. Using a pilot randomised controlled trial ... -
An online survey of young adolescent girls’ use of the internet and smartphone apps for mental health support
(2018-07)Background Adolescents are digital natives, with the majority now owning their own smartphones and having internet access. Although the internet and smartphone applications (apps) can provide mental health support, little ... -
The Oxford Cognitive Screen – Plus (OCS-Plus): A digital, tablet-based, brief cognitive assessment
(2020-10)Here, we present the Oxford Cognitive Screen-Plus, a computerised tablet-based screen designed to briefly assess domain-general cognition and provide more fine-grained measures of memory and executive function. The OCS-Plus ... -
A Path Signature Approach for Speech Emotion Recognition
(2019-09)Automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a difficult task within human-computer interaction, despite increasing interest in the research community. One key challenge is how to effectively integrate short-term ... -
Predicting motor, cognitive & functional impairment in Parkinson’s
(2019-07)Objective: We recently demonstrated that 998 features derived from a simple 7-minute smartphone test could distinguish between controls, people with Parkinson’s and people with idiopathic Rapid Eye Movement sleep behavior ... -
Qualitative Analysis of Remote Consultations (QuARC): A study of technology-enhanced consultations in diabetes, cancer and heart failure
(2018-07)Background Remote video consulting is promoted by policymakers as a way of delivering healthcare efficiently to an ageing population with rising rates of chronic illness. As a radically new service model, it brings operational ... -
A randomised controlled test of emotional attributes of a virtual coach within a virtual reality (VR) mental health treatment
(2023-07)We set out to test whether positive non-verbal behaviours of a virtual coach can enhance people's engagement in automated virtual reality therapy. 120 individuals scoring highly for fear of heights participated. In a ... -
A Safe Place to Learn: Peer Research Qualitative Investigation of gameChange Virtual Reality Therapy
(2023-01)Background: Automated virtual reality (VR) therapy has the potential to substantially increase access to evidence-based psychological treatments. The results of a multicenter randomized controlled trial showed that ... -
A Smartphone App (BlueIce) for Young People Who Self-Harm: Open Phase 1 Pre-Post Trial
(2018-01-30)Background: Recent years have seen a significant increase in the availability of smartphone apps for mental health problems. Despite their proliferation, few apps have been specifically developed for young people, and ... -
Smartphones and Wearables as a Method for Understanding Symptom Mechanisms
(2020-01)While psychological treatments have been shown to be effective in treating psychiatric disorders, the mechanism of their therapeutic effect is less well understood. An improved mechanistic understanding of psychiatric ... -
Synchronous digital couple and family psychotherapy: a meta‐narrative review
(2021-01)Objective: Our objective was to identify, review and synthesise the findings of articles regarding the practice of synchronous digital couple and family psycho-therapy over the past three decades. Methods: A meta-narrative ... -
Teaching telepsychiatry skills: building on the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic to enhance mental health care in the future
(2022-03)COVID-19 has accelerated the use of telehealth and technology in mental health care, creating new avenues to increase both access to and quality of care. As video visits, synchronous telehealth, become more routine the ... -
Technology Delivered Interventions for Depression and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
(2018-09)Depression and anxiety are common during adolescence. Whilst effective interventions are available treatment services are limited resulting in many adolescents being unable to access effective help. Delivering mental health ... -
Technology Matters: BlueIce – using a smartphone app to beat adolescent self‐harm
(2020-06)Despite the recent proliferation of mental health apps, few have directly focused on the prevention of self-harm. The available apps are described and the limited, although encouraging, outcome data are summarised. The ... -
The True Colours Remote Symptom Monitoring System: A Decade of Evolution
(2020-01)The True Colours remote mood monitoring system was developed over a decade ago by researchers, psychiatrists, and software engineers at the University of Oxford to allow patients to report on a range of symptoms via text ... -
Usability of Health Information Websites Designed for Adolescents: Systematic Review, Neurodevelopmental Model, and Design Brief
(2019-04)Background: Adolescence is a unique developmental period characterized by biological, social, and cognitive changes, as well as an interest in managing one’s own health care. Many adolescents use the internet to seek health ... -
A usability study to test the effectiveness, efficiency and simplicity of a newly developed Internet-based Exercise-focused Health App for Lung cancer survivors (iEXHALE): Protocol paper
(2019-10)The Internet-based Exercise-focused Health App for Lung cancer survivors (iEXHALE) is a mobile web app being developed to provide lung cancer survivors with an algorithm-based, tailor-made, self-management programme to ...