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record: TRV-2026-0064
version: 4
kind: sources_changed
reason: Source set updated
timestamp: 2026-07-12T20:51:10.447806Z
status: published
lens: g_space
sector: health
headline: The growing field of digital psychiatry: current evidence and the future of apps, social media, chatbots, and virtual reality
dek: As the COVID-19 pandemic has largely increased the utilization of telehealth, mobile mental health technologies - such as smartphone apps, vir-tual reality, chatbots, and social media - have also gained attention. These digital health technologies offer the potential of accessible and scalable interventions that can augment traditional care. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive update on the overall field of digital psychiatry, covering three areas. First, we outline the relevance of recent technological advances to mental health research and care, by detailing how smartphones, social media, artificial intelligence and virtual reality present new opportunities for "digital phenotyping" and remote intervention. Second, we review the current evidence for the use of these new technological approaches across different mental health contexts, covering their emerging efficacy in self-m…
gain_reading: The growing field of digital psychiatry: current evidence and the future of apps, social media, chatbots, and virtual reality: As the COVID-19 pandemic has largely increased the utilization of telehealth, mobile mental health technologies - such as smartphone apps, vir-tual reality, chatbots, and social media - have also gained attention.
problem_reading: (none)
limitation: Historical evidence reading: the cited study may be limited by its design, population, period, or setting, and later research may report different effects.
tag: Evidence-backed gain
key_points: As the COVID-19 pandemic has largely increased the utilization of telehealth, mobile mental health technologies - such as smartphone apps, vir-tual reality, chatbots, and social media - have also gained attention. | These digital health technologies offer the potential of accessible and scalable interventions that can augment traditional care. | In this paper, we provide a comprehensive update on the overall field of digital psychiatry, covering three areas.
rundown: As the COVID-19 pandemic has largely increased the utilization of telehealth, mobile mental health technologies - such as smartphone apps, vir-tual reality, chatbots, and social media - have also gained attention. These digital health technologies offer the potential of accessible and scalable interventions that can augment traditional care.

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive update on the overall field of digital psychiatry, covering three areas. First, we outline the relevance of recent technological advances to mental health research and care, by detailing how smartphones, social media, artificial intelligence and virtual reality present new opportunities for "digital phenotyping" and remote intervention.
sources:
- peer_reviewed | International Journal of Eating Disorders | https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.23798 | 2022-08-18
- peer_reviewed | Journal of Medical Internet Research | https://doi.org/10.2196/36086 | 2022-05-11
- peer_reviewed | Journal of Medical Internet Research | https://doi.org/10.2196/53576 | 2024-12-12
- peer_reviewed | World Psychiatry | https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20883 | 2021-09-09
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