Effectiveness of a Web-based and Mobile Therapy Chatbot on Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Subclinical Young Adults: Randomized Controlled Trial
Stanisław Karkosz; Robert Szymański; Katarzyna Sanna; Jarosław M. Michałowski · 2023 · JMIR Formative Research
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: There has been an increased need to provide specialized help for people with depressive and anxiety symptoms, particularly teenagers and young adults. There is evidence from a 2-week intervention that chatbots (eg, Woebot) are effective in reducing depression and anxiety, an effect that was not detected in the control group that was provided self-help materials. Although chatbots are a promising solution, there is limited scientific evidence for the efficacy of agent-guided cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) outside the English language, especially for highly inflected languages. O
Abstract by Stanisław Karkosz; Robert Szymański; Katarzyna Sanna; Jarosław M. Michałowski, JMIR Formative Research (2023) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.2196/47960