Psychological interventions for bipolar disorder based on new e-technologies: Systematic review of the present and insights into the future

2^nd International Conference on Health Informatics and Technology

July 27-29, 2015 Valencia, Spain

Diego Hidalgo-Mazzei

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Health Med Informat

Abstract :

In the last decade, there was an increasing advent of innovative concepts in psychological interventions for bipolar disorder patients empowered by technological advancements and the proliferation of Internet. To review and discuss the studies published so far aimed to deliver evidence-based psychological interventions for bipolar disorder patients. We conducted a systematic review of the literature from multiple technological, psychiatric and psychological domains. We identified over 251 potential entries matching the search criteria and after a thorough manual review, 28 publications pertaining to 12 different projects were selected. Among them, we describe our project SIMPLe, aimed to psycho educate bipolar patients through a smartphone app. Taking into consideration the diversity and inconclusive results of the studies, there is still limited evidence available to draw firm conclusions about the effectiveness of interventions using Internet-supported technologies for bipolar disorder. Nonetheless, considering the high rates of retention and compliance reported, they represent a highly feasible and acceptable method of delivering this kind of interventions.