Analysis of E-mental health research: mapping the relationship between information technology and mental healthcare.

ABSTRACT:

Background

E-mental healthcare is the convergence of digital technologies with mental health services. It has been developed to fill a gap in healthcare for people who need mental wellbeing support that may not otherwise receive psychological treatment. With an increasing number of e-mental healthcare and research, this study aimed to investigate the trends of an e-mental health research field that integrates interdisciplinary fields and to examine the information technologies is being used in mental healthcare. To achieve the research objectives, bibliometric analysis, information extraction, and network analysis were applied to analyze e-mental health research data.

Methods

E-mental health research data were obtained from 3663 bibliographic records from the Web of Science

SUBMITTER: Timakum T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8787445 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature