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Digital tools show promise at providing mental health interventions to refugee youths

12.04.24 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau
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A team led by, from left, social work professors Moses Okumu and Flora Cohen, with doctoral student Joshua Muzei explored the effectiveness of mental health interventions provided via mobile phones among refugee and displaced youths living in the slums of Kampala, Uganda. The study’s findings highlighted the need to develop contextualized apps that enable these transient populations to access, understand and use online mental health information to enhance their well-being. Credit: Photo by Fred Zwicky

Computers in Human Behavior

10.1016/j.chb.2024.108434

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eHealth literacy and digital health interventions: Key ingredients for supporting the mental health of displaced youth living in the urban slums of Kampala, Uganda

2-Dec-2024

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Keywords

Disease Intervention Mental Health

Article Information

Journal
Computers in Human Behavior
DOI
10.1016/j.chb.2024.108434
Method of Research
Survey
Subject of Research
People
Article Publication Date
2024-12-02
Article Title
eHealth literacy and digital health interventions: Key ingredients for supporting the mental health of displaced youth living in the urban slums of Kampala, Uganda
COI Statement
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Sharita Forrest
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau
slforres@illinois.edu

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau. (2024, December 4). Digital tools show promise at providing mental health interventions to refugee youths. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/L7V299D8/digital-tools-show-promise-at-providing-mental-health-interventions-to-refugee-youths.html
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"Digital tools show promise at providing mental health interventions to refugee youths." Brightsurf News, Dec. 4 2024, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/L7V299D8/digital-tools-show-promise-at-providing-mental-health-interventions-to-refugee-youths.html.