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Perceptions and Opinions of Patients About Mental Health Chatbots: Scoping Review.
Abd-Alrazaq, Alaa A; Alajlani, Mohannad; Ali, Nashva; Denecke, Kerstin; Bewick, Bridgette M; Househ, Mowafa.
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  • Abd-Alrazaq AA; Division of Information and Computing Technology, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar.
  • Alajlani M; Institute of Digital Healthcare, University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom.
  • Ali N; Division of Information and Computing Technology, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar.
  • Denecke K; Institute for Medical Informatics, Bern University of Applied Science, Bern, Switzerland.
  • Bewick BM; Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
  • Househ M; Division of Information and Computing Technology, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar.
J Med Internet Res ; 23(1): e17828, 2021 01 13.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33439133
BACKGROUND: Chatbots have been used in the last decade to improve access to mental health care services. Perceptions and opinions of patients influence the adoption of chatbots for health care. Many studies have been conducted to assess the perceptions and opinions of patients about mental health chatbots. To the best of our knowledge, there has been no review of the evidence surrounding perceptions and opinions of patients about mental health chatbots. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to conduct a scoping review of the perceptions and opinions of patients about chatbots for mental health. METHODS: The scoping review was carried out in line with the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) extension for scoping reviews guidelines. Studies were identified by searching 8 electronic databases (eg, MEDLINE and Embase) in addition to conducting backward and forward reference list checking of the included studies and relevant reviews. In total, 2 reviewers independently selected studies and extracted data from the included studies. Data were synthesized using thematic analysis. RESULTS: Of 1072 citations retrieved, 37 unique studies were included in the review. The thematic analysis generated 10 themes from the findings of the studies: usefulness, ease of use, responsiveness, understandability, acceptability, attractiveness, trustworthiness, enjoyability, content, and comparisons. CONCLUSIONS: The results demonstrated overall positive perceptions and opinions of patients about chatbots for mental health. Important issues to be addressed in the future are the linguistic capabilities of the chatbots: they have to be able to deal adequately with unexpected user input, provide high-quality responses, and have to show high variability in responses. To be useful for clinical practice, we have to find ways to harmonize chatbot content with individual treatment recommendations, that is, a personalization of chatbot conversations is required.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Salud Mental / Telemedicina Tipo de estudio: Guideline / Prognostic_studies / Systematic_reviews Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: J Med Internet Res Asunto de la revista: INFORMATICA MEDICA Año: 2021 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Qatar Pais de publicación: Canadá
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Salud Mental / Telemedicina Tipo de estudio: Guideline / Prognostic_studies / Systematic_reviews Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: J Med Internet Res Asunto de la revista: INFORMATICA MEDICA Año: 2021 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Qatar Pais de publicación: Canadá