FOCUS mHealth Intervention for Veterans With Serious Mental Illness in an Outpatient Department of Veterans Affairs Setting: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Usability Study.

Background: Veterans with serious mental illnesses (SMIs) face barriers to accessing in-person evidence-based interventions that improve illness management. Mobile health (mHealth) has been demonstrated to be feasible, acceptable, effective, and engaging among individuals with SMIs in community mental health settings. mHealth for SMIs has not been tested within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Mobile applications may be the future of veteran mental health support but do veterans know yet? A survey of app knowledge and use.

Given the substantial investment in the development of mental health mobile applications (apps), information about penetration in the patient populations of interest is critical. This study describes the proportion of veterans who are knowledgeable of and utilize the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD) mental health apps. A cross-sectional survey of 140 veterans was conducted in primary care and outpatient mental health clinics at a large VA facility.