Digital mental health interventions for chronic serious mental illness: Findings from a qualitative study on usability and scale-up of the Life Goals app for bipolar disorder.

The Life Goals (LG) application is an evidence-based self-management tool intended to help individuals with bipolar disorder (BD) by aligning symptom coping strategies with personal goals. The program has traditionally been offered in-person or the web, but has recently been translated into an individualized, customizable mobile intervention to improve access to care and reduce provider burden. The LG app previously showed acceptability with ease of use and satisfaction with user interface, but less success in encouraging self-management.

The Life Goals Self-Management Mobile App for Bipolar Disorder: Consumer Feasibility, Usability, and Acceptability Study.

Background: Life Goals is an evidence-based self-management intervention that assists individuals with bipolar disorder (BD) by aligning BD symptom coping strategies with their personal goals. The intervention can be availed via in-person and telephonic sessions, and it has been recently developed as an individualized, customizable mobile app.

Objective: We examined the feasibility, usability, and acceptability of the Life Goals self-management app among individuals diagnosed with BD who used the app for up to 6 months.

Sleep quality and neuropsychological functioning in bipolar I disorder.

Background: Individuals with bipolar I disorder (BD-I) experience both poor sleep and neuropsychological dysfunction relative to non-psychiatric populations, which limits functional recovery. Poor sleep adversely affects learning, memory, and executive functioning in healthy individuals; however, little is known about the role of poor sleep in neuropsychological functioning in BD-I. We tested whether sleep disturbance was greater in BD-I than healthy control participants (HC), and compared the effect of sleep quality on learning, memory, and executive functioning between BD-I and HC.