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Engagement with digital mental health interventions remains poorly understood

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Mar 31 2026
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Four recent reviews all agree: we still don’t know how to define, measure, or improve engagement with digital mental health interventions.

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Tagged with: clinical engagement, digital engagement, digital innovation, digital mental health, Editor Simon Bradstreet, Health Psychology Review, JAMA Psychiatry, JMIR Mental Health, NPJ Digital Medicine, patient engagement, Systematic Reviews

One more tool in the toolbox: an umbrella review of single-session interventions for mental health problems

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Oct 15 2025
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Single-session interventions represent a low-cost, one-off, scalable intervention that may help to bridge the treatment gap for mental health problems. But are they actually effective, and how do they compare to typical, multi-session interventions? This umbrella review indicates that they are an important tool to have in our toolbox of treatment options.

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Tagged with: Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, anxiety, behavioural activation, clinical engagement, depression, digital innovation, digital interventions, digital mental health, disordered eating, externalising problems, internet based interventions, meta-analysis, psychotherapies, Single Session Interventions, substance use, systematic review, umbrella review, youth mental health

Engaging GPs in commissioning: what works?

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Oct 29 2015
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This report shares findings from a realist evaluation exploring what GPs bring to commissioning and some key facilitators and enablers.

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Tagged with: clinical engagement, decision making, engagement, general practitioners, provider management, realist evaluation

Are clinicians engaged in quality improvement? Simplistic approaches to change end in disappointment

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May 1 2011
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A Health Foundation review reports that active involvement of clinicians with quality improvement remains largely unrealised. With the challenge of having to do more with fewer resources, engagement becomes ever more critical yet the NHS “often relies on overly simplistic rational-linear approaches to change that:  end in disappointment which could be predicted by the ‘person [read the full story…]

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