Promoting Mental Health Through Mobile Technology

Promoting mental
health through
mobile technology
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Introduction
• Mobile and wireless technologies have
the potential of providing support to
various health objectives.
• Technology has become an unavoidable
fact of the daily lives
• Wireless technology have attractive
advantages that have accelerated the
fast development and use of mobile
applications (McNaughton and Light
2013)
• Mobile devices are considered as the
gateway to improve engagement of the
patients with their healthcare providers

Background information
• The current healthcare system is replete with
uncertainties for healthcare providers and the
patients, in addition to the key stakeholders
• Recently conducted research studies state
that patients show an increased desire of
remaining connected to their physicians (Free
et al. 2013)
• This facilitates the process of quality
interactions about health at the bed side.

Mobile usage
• Rates of mobile usage are found to
be approximately 89 per 100
inhabitants, across developing
nations (Itu.int 2018)
• Mobile technologies are also used for
accomplishing a range of daily tasks
such as, socializing, banking and
shopping
• There are a range of factors that
have driven the change in the use of
mobile technology in healthcare

Mobile health technologies
• Mobile health technologies have opened a
new frontier for supporting mental health
among people
• Mobile and wireless devices such as,
smartphones and tablets are providing the
opportunity to monitor patient progress
• They are also increasing the understanding of
mental wellbeing

• Mobile health technologies are
integrated into healthcare through
text messaging, teleconferencing, and
internet based interventions
• Such technology based applications
often use the built in sensor of the
device to collect patient information
on behavioural patterns
• These technologies take into
consideration the fact that more than
40% of the global population can
access the internet