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

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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