23.2 Leveraging Insights From Social Media to Drive Digital Mental Health Tool Development

Creating comprehensive and deep-penetrating digital tools requires a population-level understanding of the issues, experiences, and desires of the target population. New technology development provides a wide range of opportunities for meaningful engagement between health professionals and people who may not otherwise have contact with mental health providers. By use of publicly available data streams, we can develop tools and monitoring systems to increase the reach and saturation of digital mental health systems for vulnerable populations who are most in need of care and hardest to reach.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research