Mental Healthcare

Creating a community-led telehealth approach for supportive cancer care

March 18, 2024 - Cancer is a life-changing diagnosis for the patient and everyone in their orbit. Treatment of this deadly disease is all-consuming and filled with uncertainty, because of which cancer patients are at risk of experiencing mental health and other psychosocial challenges. While integrated support services have been shown to help cancer patients in their arduous journey, barriers to...


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Racial minority IBD patients find mental health apps ‘acceptable’

by Anuja Vaidya

New research shows that Black and Hispanic people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and elevated symptoms of anxiety and depression engaged in digital behavioral health applications, indicating...

Text Message-Based mHealth Intervention More Effective Later in Day

by Anuja Vaidya

On examining a text messaging-based mHealth intervention, researchers found messages delivered in the afternoon or evening improved mood among people with depression and anxiety symptoms more...

Using VR to Create an Immersive Mental Health Support System

by Anuja Vaidya

Virtual reality (VR) technologies offer exciting new promises for healthcare delivery, particularly in the mental health arena. With advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing, and computer vision,...

Depression Screening Less Likely During Telehealth Than In-Person Visit

by Anuja Vaidya

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, depression screening rates during telehealth appointments plateaued and remained low compared with screenings during in-person visits, according to new...

A Deep Dive into CA’s mHealth Effort to Support Youth Mental Health

by Anuja Vaidya

As healthcare stakeholders attempt to stem the youth mental health crisis in America, many have turned to digital health technology. The latest to do so is the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), which has launched a...

Telemental Healthcare Use Varies Across Sociodemographic Lines

by Anuja Vaidya

Patterns in the use of audio-only or video-based telehealth to receive mental healthcare are mixed, differing based on age, sex, education, income, and location, according to new research by the...

Telehealth Availability at Mental Health Facilities Varies Across States

by Anuja Vaidya

The availability of telemental healthcare services varies widely across states, with high telehealth availability in states like Maine and Oregon and low availability in states like Mississippi and...

Female, Urban Providers More Likely to Shift to Telemental Health  

by Anuja Vaidya

Female mental health specialists and those working in highly populated counties with higher real estate prices were more likely to shift their practice fully to telehealth in 2022 than their peers,...

Senators Reintroduce Bill to Ease Telemental Healthcare Access

by Anuja Vaidya

A group of bipartisan senators have reintroduced a bill to expand access to virtual mental healthcare services for Medicare beneficiaries. The Telemental Health Care Access Act aims to remove the...

Counties with Urgent Mental Healthcare Needs Face Telehealth Barriers

by Anuja Vaidya

Though telehealth can help expand mental healthcare access, United States counties where mental health resources are low tend to also lack broadband internet access, hampering telehealth use, according...

Psychiatrists’ Telehealth Use ‘Well Above’ Other Specialists

by Anuja Vaidya

Psychiatrists were the top users of telehealth in 2022, with 83 percent saying they had conducted a video visit the week prior in an American Medical Association (AMA) survey. The AMA released a...

Understanding Asynchronous Telehealth’s Benefits and Barriers to Use

by Anuja Vaidya

With the unprecedented rise in telehealth utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic, it became increasingly clear that it was not a passing phase. Though usage rates have dropped since the pandemic’s peak, telehealth has become...

New Bill to Expand Home-Based Virtual Mental, Substance Use Care

by Anuja Vaidya

Two United States representatives have introduced a new bill that aims to expand access to at-home virtual mental health and substance use services in rural communities. Introduced by Andrea Salinas...

How a Provider-Police Collab is Expanding Virtual Mental Health Access

by Anuja Vaidya

Law enforcement officers play an increasingly pivotal role in connecting people with mental health conditions to healthcare services. However, amid strained resources and hospital capacity problems, law enforcement often lacks efficient...

Shorter Treatment Length Make mHealth App Interventions More Effective

by Anuja Vaidya

While mHealth application-based interventions are effective in treating moderate and severe depression, certain factors impact their efficacy, like in-app notifications and the length of treatment...

Telehealth Use Remains High in Mental Health, Infectious Disease Care

by Anuja Vaidya

While telehealth use has dropped nearly 25 percentage points from peak usage in 2020, certain specialties, like mental health, infectious disease, and obstetrics, still have higher-than-average...

With Digital Access, Telemental Health Benefits Youth on Medicaid

by Anuja Vaidya

Mental healthcare provided via telehealth can eliminate geographic and other barriers to care for youth enrolled in Medicaid, but only if they have the digital resources necessary for virtual care,...

‘Getting Heads in Headsets’: Exploring Virtual Reality Use in the VA

by Anuja Vaidya

Virtual reality (VR), though initially relegated to the world of gaming, is increasingly being applied in healthcare. Healthcare research and provider organizations nationwide are actively exploring the use of VR technologies in various...

High Telehealth Use Linked to More Visits for Serious Mental Illness

by Anuja Vaidya

Receiving care from medical practices with higher telehealth use is associated with an increase in mental health visits among Medicare patients with serious mental illness, according to a new...

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