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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 ...
What is the clinical value of mHealth for patients?
(2020-01)
Despite growing interest from both patients and healthcare providers, there is little clinical guidance on how mobile apps should be utilized to add value to patient care. We categorize apps according to their functionality ...
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 ...
Digital health innovation to support sensitive enquiry about female genital mutilation
(2021-05)
Health professionals working in community settings are increasingly using mobile technologies to access information and support clients. A Mary Seacole Leadership Award enabled the production of an app, ‘Let's talk FGM’ ...
Can Your Phone Be Your Therapist? Young People’s Ethical Perspectives on the Use of Fully Automated Conversational Agents (Chatbots) in Mental Health Support
(2019-03)
Over the last decade, there has been an explosion of digital interventions that aim to either supplement or replace face-to-face
mental health services. More recently, a number of automated conversational agents have also ...
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 ...
Development of an app for lung cancer survivors (iEXHALE) to increase exercise activity and improve symptoms of fatigue, breathlessness and depression
(2019-11)
Objective
Exercise‐based self‐management interventions are recommended for lung cancer survivors and can provide physical, psychosocial and emotional relief. Mobile health technologies can encourage self‐management; ...
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 ...
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 ...
Beating Adolescent Self-Harm (BASH): a randomised controlled trial comparing usual care versus usual care plus a smartphone self-harm prevention app (BlueIce) in young adolescents aged 12–17 who self-harm: study protocol
(2021-11)
Introduction A mobile app, BlueIce, was codesigned with young people with a history of self-harm to provide them with more accessible and available evidence-based support at times of distress. A preliminary evaluation found ...