Self-Care
Individuals living with poor mental health conditions
Recovery program focused on digital interventions
Providing recovery tools through digital formats
Digital mental health interventions (DMHI) offer promising, accessible solutions for mental healthcare. Self-care videos and guided programs have shown effectiveness in reducing anxiety and depression, especially in workplace and large-group settings.
Evidence Base
Digital mental health interventions (DMHI) include technology-based solutions to support an individual’s recovery journey. The DMHI research is in its infancy and as it continues to evolve is showing promise for the future of mental healthcare. In this paper, we find that self-care videos and courses are already showing evidence of effectiveness. For example, self-guided online intervention helped parents with high levels of anxiety to reduce it (Dunn et al., 2024). The WHO has designed five self-help courses for large groups as well delivered by a supervised, non-specialist facilitator through pre-recorded audios (Fietta et al., 2024; World Health Organisation, 2021). The convenience and anonymity of digital solutions are also valuable in workplace settings (Carolan & O de Visser, 2018). A self-care to stepped-care program saw a reduction in anxiety and depression for healthcare workers, with no serious adverse events (Mediavilla et al., 2022, 2023)