低收入和中等收入国家的老年人中常见的心理健康问题的数字干预:一个范围审查
Indranil Saha1, Christopher Sundström2, Arun Kandasamy3
1Centre for Ageing and Mental Health, Indian Council of Medical Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
BMJ global health
|June 24, 2025
概括
在低收入和中等收入国家对老年人数字心理健康干预的研究很少. 发现的少数研究表明,对抑郁和孤独有希望的结果.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 数字健康数字健康
- 全球心理健康全球心理健康
背景情况:
- 全球人口快速老龄化,大多数老年人居住在低收入和中等收入国家 (LMICs).
- 解决老龄化人口的心理健康挑战需要定制的数字干预措施.
- 低低收入国家在为老年人提供心理健康服务方面面临着独特的挑战.
研究的目的:
- 系统地绘制现有关于老年人常见心理健康问题的数字干预措施的研究.
- 确定专门在低收入和中等收入国家进行的研究.
- 了解LMIC中老龄化人口的数字心理健康研究的范围和发现.
主要方法:
- 发表文献的范围审查.
- 在PubMed,Embase,Scopus和Cochrane图书馆数据库中进行的搜索.
- 纳入标准集中在数字干预,常见的心理健康问题,老年人 (≥60岁) 和LMICs.
主要成果:
- 只有六项研究符合纳入标准.
- 四项定量研究 (3项RCT,1项可行性研究) 专注于中等收入国家 (南非,巴西,土耳其) 的抑郁症/孤独感.
- 这些研究表明,这些研究对减少社会隔离和抑郁症有积极的影响;还确定了来自印度的两份专家意见.
结论:
- 在LMIC中,对老年人数字心理健康干预的研究存在重大差距.
- 尽管需求日益增长,但目前的证据非常有限.
- 进一步的研究对于开发和实施有效的数字心理健康解决方案对于LMICs老龄化人口至关重要.
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