Updates on digital mental health interventions for children and young people: systematic overview of reviews.
Digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) are increasingly recommended for children and young people (CYP) as a promising way to prevent and treat mental health problems. Here, we summarised and consolidated findings from existing systematic reviews to provide an overview of what is known, and whi...
| Publicado en: | European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Vol. 34; no. 10; pp. 2961 - 2975 |
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| Formato: | research systematic review tables/charts Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Oct2025
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