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[Effect of Digital Health Interventions on Psychotic Symptoms among Persons with Severe Mental Illness in Community:
1Department of Nursing, Songwon University, Gwangju, Korea.
Purpose:
This study aimed to evaluate the effects of digital health interventions on the psychotic symptoms among people with severe mental illness in the community.
Methods:
A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted in accordance with the Cochrane Intervention Research Systematic Review Manual and PRISMA. A literature search was conducted of published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for digital health interventions from January 2022 to April 2022. RevMan software 5.3 was used for quality assessment and meta-analysis.
Results:
A total 14 studies out of 9,864 studies were included in the review, and 13 were included in meta-analysis. The overall effect size of digital health interventions on psychotic symptoms was -0.21 (95% CI = -0.32 to -0.10). Sub-analysis showed that the reduction of the psychotic symptoms was effective in the schizophrenia spectrum group (SMD = -.0.22; 95% CI = -.0.36 to -0.09), web (SMD = -0.41; 95% CI = -0.82 to 0.01), virtual reality (SMD = -0.33; 95% CI = -0.56 to -0.10), mobile (SMD = -0.15; 95% CI = -0.28 to -0.03), intervention period of less than 3 months (SMD = -0.23; 95% CI = -0.35 to -0.11), and non-treatment group (SMD = -0.23; 95% CI = -0.36 to -0.11).
Conclusion:
These findings suggest that digital health interventions alleviate psychotic symptoms in patients with severe mental illnesses. However, well-designed digital health studies should be conducted in the future.
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