Mental Health Mobile Applications and Psychiatric Nursing

Abstract

In recent years, difficulties have been experienced in mental health treatment, care, and follow-up services due to reasons such as the increase in mental health problems, delays in accessing health institutions, stigma, and the low number of beds. Despite these difficulties, current technological developments offer important opportunities to improve the quality of mental health care and the use of mobile applications in the field of mental health is becoming increasingly widespread. Today, protecting the mental health of individuals; early diagnosis and management of many mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and addiction; Mobile applications have been developed for issues such as rehabilitation of individuals. It provides convenience to both patients and mental health professionals with content such as assessing mental status, managing daily functions, reminding appointments and medication use, stress and symptom management, psychoeducation, and homework control. It can improve the quality of care of psychiatric nursing, especially with features such as easy access to patient data, coordinating holistic care, and ensuring patients' participation in care. It is seen in the literature that there are a limited number of mobile applications developed directly for psychiatric nursing, and psychiatric nurses can use mental health mobile applications. In Turkey, there are a limited number of mobile applications developed in the field of mental health, and there is no mobile application developed for psychiatric nursing services. In this context, the compilation was carried out with the aim of providing information and raising awareness about mobile applications that psychiatric nursing can use.

Keywords

• Psychiatric nursing
• mental health
• mobile applications
• mobile health

Ruh Sağlığı Mobil Uygulamaları ve Psikiyatri Hemşireliği

Abstract

Son yıllarda ruh sağlığı sorunlarındaki artış, sağlık kurumlarına erişimde gecikmeler, damgalanma, yatak sayısının azlığı gibi nedenler ile ruh sağlığı tedavi, bakım ve takip hizmetlerinde güçlükler yaşanmaktadır. Bu güçlüklere karşın, güncel teknolojik gelişmeler ruh sağlığı bakım kalitesini artırmada önemli fırsatlar sunmakta ve ruh sağlığı alanında mobil uygulamalarının kullanımı giderek yaygınlaşmaktadır. Günümüzde bireylerin ruh sağlığını koruma; depresyon, anksiyete, şizofreni, bağımlılık gibi pek çok ruhsal bozukluğu erken tanılama ve yönetme; bireylerin rehabilitasyonunu sağlama gibi konularda mobil uygulamalar geliştirilmiştir. Mobil uygulamalar ruhsal durumu değerlendirme, günlük işlevleri yönetme, randevu ve ilaç kullanımını hatırlatma, stres ve semptom yönetimi, psikoeğitim, ev ödevi kontrolü gibi içerikler ile hem hastalara hem de ruh sağlığı çalışanlarına kolaylık sağlamaktadır. Ayrıca mobil uygulamalar hasta verilerine kolayca ulaşabilme, bütüncül bakımı koordine etme, hastaların bakıma katılımını sağlama gibi özellikleri ile psikiyatri hemşireliği bakım kalitesini artırabilmektedir. Literatürde doğrudan psikiyatri hemşireliğine yönelik geliştirilen sınırlı sayıda mobil uygulama olduğu, psikiyatri hemşirelerinin ruh sağlığı mobil uygulamalarını kullanabildiği görülmektedir. Türkiye’de ise ruh sağlığı alanında geliştirilen mobil uygulamalar sınırlı sayıdadır, psikiyatri hemşireliği hizmetlerine yönelik geliştirilmiş bir mobil uygulama bulunmamaktadır. Bu bağlamda derleme psikiyatri hemşireliğinin kullanabileceği mobil uygulamalar konusunda bilgi vermek ve farkındalık oluşturmak amacı ile gerçekleştirilmiştir.

Keywords

• Psikiyatri hemşireliği
• mobil uygulamalar
• mobil sağlık
• ruh sağlığı

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