Perceptions and Opinions of Patients About Mental Health Chatbots: Scoping Review

<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">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...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Alaa A Abd-Alrazaq (18456744) (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Mohannad Alajlani (9392676) (author), Nashva Ali (18456747) (author), Kerstin Denecke (11534035) (author), Bridgette M Bewick (18102667) (author), Mowafa Househ (9154124) (author)
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Nashva Ali (18456747)
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Mowafa Househ (9154124)
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Bridgette M Bewick (18102667)
Mowafa Househ (9154124)
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Health services and systems
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conversational agents
mental health
mental disorders
perceptions
opinions
mobile phone
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description <h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">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.</p><h3>Objective</h3><p dir="ltr">This study aims to conduct a scoping review of the perceptions and opinions of patients about chatbots for mental health.</p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">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.</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">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.</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p dir="ltr">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.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/17828" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/17828</a></p>
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spelling Perceptions and Opinions of Patients About Mental Health Chatbots: Scoping ReviewAlaa A Abd-Alrazaq (18456744)Mohannad Alajlani (9392676)Nashva Ali (18456747)Kerstin Denecke (11534035)Bridgette M Bewick (18102667)Mowafa Househ (9154124)Health sciencesHealth services and systemschatbotsconversational agentsmental healthmental disordersperceptionsopinionsmobile phone<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">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.</p><h3>Objective</h3><p dir="ltr">This study aims to conduct a scoping review of the perceptions and opinions of patients about chatbots for mental health.</p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">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.</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">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.</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p dir="ltr">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.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/17828" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/17828</a></p>2021-01-13T03:00:00ZTextJournal contributioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontextcontribution to journal10.2196/17828https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Perceptions_and_Opinions_of_Patients_About_Mental_Health_Chatbots_Scoping_Review/25709850CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/257098502021-01-13T03:00:00Z
spellingShingle Perceptions and Opinions of Patients About Mental Health Chatbots: Scoping Review
Alaa A Abd-Alrazaq (18456744)
Health sciences
Health services and systems
chatbots
conversational agents
mental health
mental disorders
perceptions
opinions
mobile phone
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title Perceptions and Opinions of Patients About Mental Health Chatbots: Scoping Review
title_full Perceptions and Opinions of Patients About Mental Health Chatbots: Scoping Review
title_fullStr Perceptions and Opinions of Patients About Mental Health Chatbots: Scoping Review
title_full_unstemmed Perceptions and Opinions of Patients About Mental Health Chatbots: Scoping Review
title_short Perceptions and Opinions of Patients About Mental Health Chatbots: Scoping Review
title_sort Perceptions and Opinions of Patients About Mental Health Chatbots: Scoping Review
topic Health sciences
Health services and systems
chatbots
conversational agents
mental health
mental disorders
perceptions
opinions
mobile phone