A Novel Method for Evaluating Mobile Apps (App Rating Inventory): Development Study.

Background: Selecting and integrating health-related apps into patient care is impeded by the absence of objective guidelines for identifying high-quality apps from the many thousands now available.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the App Rating Inventory, which was developed by the Defense Health Agency's Connected Health branch, to support clinical decisions regarding app selection and evaluate medical and behavioral apps.

Methods: To enhance the tool's performance, eliminate item redundancy, reduce scoring system subjectivity, and ensure a broad application of App Rating Inventory-derived results, inventory development included 3 rounds of validation testing and 2 trial periods conducted over a 6-month interval.

Competencies Needed for Behavioral Health Professionals to Integrate Digital Health Technologies into Clinical Care: a Rapid Review.

This rapid review examines literature on training and competencies for behavioral health professionals to integrate digital health technologies into clinical practice. While the evidence for digital health is growing, research evidence supports its use in behavioral healthcare. Despite this, behavioral health professionals have been slow to integrate technologies into care for various reasons.

An Applied Test of Knowledge Translation Methods Using a Mobile Health Solution.

Introduction: The study's objectives were to improve providers' knowledge of mobile health core competencies; increase providers' knowledge and clinical use of the Virtual Hope Box (VHB) mobile app as an evidence-based treatment tool; and test elements of a structured knowledge translation paradigm.

Materials And Methods: knowledge translation best practices were integrated into a training workshop with the goal to increase provider adoption of the VHB. Providers were trained at three sites and provided feedback before the training, post-training, and at 3, 6, and 12 months following the training.

Review of mobile health technology for military mental health.

Mental health problems pose challenges for military veterans, returning service members, and military family members including spouses and children. Challenges to meeting mental health needs include improving access to care and improving quality of care. Mobile Health, or "mHealth," can help meet these needs in the garrison and civilian environments.

Bringing Internet-based education and intervention into mental health practice: afterdeployment.org.

Background: Internet-facilitated interventions may offer numerous advantages in reaching the large numbers of military service men and women exposed to traumatic events. The Internet is now a primary source of health-related information for consumers and research has shown the effectiveness of web-based interventions in addressing a range of mental health problems.

Objective: Clinicians can learn how to bring Internet education and intervention into routine care, to help clients better understand mental health issues and learn skills for self-management of problems.