A smartphone application of personalized psychoeducation: how does it work ? - 29/05/20
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Adjunctive psychological interventions as an add-on to pharmacological treatment, have shown to further improve long-term outcome in Bipolar Disorder. Among them, psychoeducational programs have a well-established evidence of efficacy and cost-efficiency [1]. However, there are several limitations restricting the broad implementation of these psychological treatments, out of which the most important one is related to a tremendous gap between availability and demand. There is a consensus in the literature that the shortcomings of the traditional model of episodic care is suboptimal for improving chronic disease outcomes contributing to a high burden of chronic mental diseases [2].Until now, most of the above-mentioned interventions are offered exclusively through face-to-face individual or group meetings at few specialized clinics unevenly geographically distributed and for a limited period. Furthermore, adapting such interventions to individual characteristics in a cost-efficient way represents an imperative challenge to overcome in the oncoming years [1]. Therefore, there is an emerging interest to explore new approaches to deliver this kind of treatments tailored to individual needs and in a continuous way (e.g. all year long) from any location while maintaining their efficacy at a low cost. The high availability of Internet connected devices as well as it’s user-friendly interfaces could be a potential and feasible window to expand and extend psychoeducational programs in Bipolar disorder. But is it possible to fit a face-to-face program in websites or smartphone apps? Int his presentation we will review the scientific literature of projects offering internet-based interventions regarding it’s feasibility and efficacy. Finally, we will focus on the SIMPLe (Self-monitoring and psychoeducation in bipolar patients with a smart-phone application) project, explaining its approach and results on delivering a psychoeducational intervention for bipolar disorder both in clinical settings as well as an open platform [3,4,5].
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