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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

Digital privilege? Negative effects of screen time linked to lower socioeconomic status in adolescence

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In his debut blog, Isaac Winterburn evaluates an Irish longitudinal cohort study examining the impact of digital use and socioeconomic status on adolescent wellbeing.

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Tagged with: child and adolescent, cohort study, digital divide, digital engagement, digital exclusion, digital health, digital mental health, digital technologies, digital use, externalising problems, gaming, Growing Up in Ireland, internalising problems, Journal of Adolescence, longitudinal study, screen time, smartphone, social media, socioeconomic status, socioemotional wellbeing, youth mental health

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