The Emerging Imperative for a Consensus Approach Toward the Rating and Clinical Recommendation of Mental Health Apps
The Emerging Imperative for a Consensus Approach Toward the Rating and Clinical Recommendation of Mental Health Apps
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DOI：
10.1097/nmd.0000000000000864
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发表时间：
2018-08-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Christensen, Helen
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作者：
Torous, John;Firth, Joseph;Christensen, Helen
目前有超过 10,000 个与心理健康和精神病学相关的智能手机应用程序可供使用并且还在不断增加，因此需要对这些数字工具进行可靠且有效的评估。然而，智能手机应用程序的更新和非静态性质、不断扩大的隐私问题、不同程度的可用性以及不断发展的互操作性标准等因素，给应用程序评估带来了严峻的挑战。在本文中，我们对应用程序评估的各种方案进行了叙述性回顾，包括商业应用程序商店指标、政府举措、以患者为中心的方法、基于分数的评分、学术平台和专家评审系统。我们证明，这些不同的应用程序评估方法各自具有独特的优势，但往往彼此不一致，并就哪些应用程序有用或无用得出不同的结论。尽管没有简单的解决方案，但我们简要介绍了一项新举措，旨在统一当前应用程序提升方面的争议，称为 CHART（协作健康应用程序评级团队），该举措将在本系列的第二篇文章中进一步讨论。
With over 10,000 mental health- and psychiatry-related smartphone apps available today and expanding, there is a need for reliable and valid evaluation of these digital tools. However, the updating and nonstatic nature of smartphone apps, expanding privacy concerns, varying degrees of usability, and evolving interoperability standards, among other factors, present serious challenges for app evaluation. In this article, we provide a narrative review of various schemes toward app evaluations, including commercial app store metrics, government initiatives, patient-centric approaches, point-based scoring, academic platforms, and expert review systems. We demonstrate that these different approaches toward app evaluation each offer unique benefits but often do not agree to each other and produce varied conclusions as to which apps are useful or not. Although there are no simple solutions, we briefly introduce a new initiative that aims to unify the current controversies in app elevation called CHART (Collaborative Health App Rating Teams), which will be further discussed in a second article in this series.