Queremos compartir  un interesante artículo sobre las aplicaciones de salud mental publicado en The Guardian.

The mental health app marketplace is “very messy”, says André Tomlin, who runs the Mental Elf website that offers up-to-date information about mental health policy and research.

Most apps, says Tomlin, are targeted at common mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety, but increasingly there are apps for people with more serious conditions, such as bipolar disorder. Appropriate apps, he says, can be hard to find: “If you go to the App Store and browse in the health and wellbeing section, what you’ll get is a ton of yoga and sex apps.”

The biggest challenge is evaluating clinical effectiveness and NHS England has talked to patients and organisations, such as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, to establish “what good looks like” before an app can be approved. It is a rigorous process, says Juliet Bauer, chief digital officer at NHS England: “If we want to recommend them to the public, we need to know that they’re safe and secure, and effective and easy to use.”