Publications by authors named "Bridget Dwyer"
Background: Low engagement with mental health apps continues to limit their impact. New approaches to help match patients to the right app may increase engagement by ensuring the app they are using is best suited to their mental health needs.
Objective: This study aims to pilot how digital phenotyping, using data from smartphone sensors to infer symptom, behavioral, and functional outcomes, could be used to match people to mental health apps and potentially increase engagement.
Article Synopsis
- Digital approaches are seen as valuable in addressing the mental health needs of individuals with schizophrenia and severe mental illness, and an international group was formed to discuss challenges and solutions in this area.
- The group identified four main challenges: user involvement, methodological issues, regulatory and funding hurdles, and real-world implementation, and provided specific examples and recommendations for each.
- The consensus includes calls for improved digital mental health research standards, the importance of social factors, and integrating lived experiences into the design and delivery of mental health interventions.
Providing human support for users of behavioral health technology can help facilitate the necessary engagement and clinical integration of digital tools in mental health care. A team conducted digital navigator training that taught participants how to promote patrons' digital literacy, evaluate and recommend health apps, and interpret smartphone data. The authors trained 80 participants from 21 organizations, demonstrating this training's feasibility, acceptability, and need.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFConsistent elicitation of serum antibody responses that neutralize diverse clades of HIV-1 remains a primary goal of HIV-1 vaccine research. Prior work has defined key features of soluble HIV-1 Envelope (Env) immunogen cocktails that influence the neutralization breadth and potency of multivalent vaccine-elicited antibody responses including the number of Env strains in the regimen. We designed immunization groups that consisted of different numbers of SOSIP Env strains to be used in a cocktail immunization strategy: the smallest cocktail (group 2) consisted of a set of two Env strains, which were a subset of the three Env strains that made up group 3, which, in turn, were a subset of the six Env strains that made up group 4.
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