59: Effect of Integrating Patient-Generated Digital Data Into Mental Health Therapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Lauren Southwick, M.P.H., and Sharath Guntuku, Ph.D., join Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss whether using a digital dashboard maintained by patients to track social media and other digital data usage had an impact on mental health therapy outcomes.

• Southwick and Guntuku interview [01:37] • What led you to this study design? [03:06] • What did you think this would look like in a therapy setting? [08:00] • Amount of data patients contributed varied widely [09:39] • The dashboard [10:12] • What were the effects of sharing digital data with therapists? [12:31] • The Hawthorne effect [15:25] • What’s next for your research? [18:23] • Recruitment [20:46] • COVID and people’s interactions with digital media and mental health [23:29] • ChatGPT [26:50]

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