App-Supported Smartphone Interventions for Mental Health Problems
A significant number of people in the United States with mental health problems do not receive treatment. According to statistics compiled by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) for 2018:
57% of adults with mental illness never received treatment.
36% of adults with serious mental illness never received treatment.
The average delay between onset of mental illness symptoms and treatment is 11 years.
App-supported smartphone interventions have been promoted as one way to fill in the gap. In a paper entitled “The Efficacy …
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