{"id":13381,"date":"2021-04-08T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T15:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/?p=13381"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:51:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:51:38","slug":"herramientas-digitales-para-la-salud-mental-durante-la-emergencia-sanitaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/plataformas-digitales\/herramientas-digitales-para-la-salud-mental-durante-la-emergencia-sanitaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital tools for mental health during health emergencies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The editorial in the new April issue of The Lancet Digital Health, addresses the topic of digital tools for mental health care in times of health emergency.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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At the beginning of 2021, in January, member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) discussed the importance of introducing mental health services into the response to public health emergencies such as currently during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of WHO's proposals was that health services should include remote mental health services through innovative technologies that promote equitable access to telehealth.<\/p>

The WHO reported that 91 out of 131 countries have adopted telemedicine or teletherapy services, in other words, 70% of the countries have introduced or expanded their remote mental health consultation services during the pandemic.<\/p>

On the other hand, according to The Lancet, there are approximately 20,000 mobile applications dedicated to mental health, although some are supported by evidence of efficacy, not all of them comply with an inclusive design.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The digital divide and equitable access are the main challenges in the digitization of health services. \" Digital tools should not just be used reactively in mental health. AI and big data can be leveraged to understand the impact and scale of mental health issues emerging in response to the pandemic\", the article explains.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Through machine learning models on SMS text messages and social network data, studies have been published that have detected an increase in language related to mental health problems related to COVID-19. However, it is not necessary to resort to sophisticated technology alone; studies have been conducted in the United Kingdom collecting data on the impact of the pandemic on people's well-being through online surveys and phone calls.<\/p>

\u201cHowever, the research community must take the time to address fundamental issues such as the representativeness of population samples and the clinical validity of the measures used to define and identify mental health conditions\u2014and, of course, the ethical issues surrounding data collection and privacy\u201d, The Lancet explains inthe editorial article.<\/p>

It closes by explaining that digital tools can be an effective way to provide large-scale mental health support during the pandemic. However, researchers and practitioners are an important part of the implementation of these types of technologies, which in addition to providing access to health during times of emergency, also manage to provide equitable and diverse health services to the population.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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THE LANCET<\/strong><\/p>

https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/landig\/article\/PIIS2589-7500(21)00045-5\/fulltext<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

La editorial del nuevo n\u00famero de abril de The Lancet Digital Health, aborda el tema de las herramientas digitales para la atenci\u00f3n en salud mental en tiempos de emergencia sanitaria. A inicios de 2021, en enero, estados miembros de la Organizaci\u00f3n Mundial de la Salud (OMS), discutieron sobre la importancia de integrar servicios de salud mental en la respuesta ante emergencias de salud p\u00fablica como actualmente durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Una de las propuestas de la OMS fue que los servicios de salud incluyan servicios de salud mental a distancia a trav\u00e9s de tecnolog\u00edas innovadoras que promuevan el acceso equitativo a telesalud. La OMS inform\u00f3 que 91 de 131 pa\u00edses han adoptado servicios de telemedicina o tele terapia, es decir el 70% de los pa\u00edses han introducido o expandido sus servicios de consulta remota en salud mental durante la pandemia. Por otra parte, seg\u00fan The Lancet, existen aproximadamente 20 mil aplicaciones m\u00f3viles dedicadas a la salud mental, a pesar de que algunas se encuentran respaldadas por pruebas de eficacia, no todas cumplen con un dise\u00f1o inclusivo. La brecha digital y el acceso equitativo son los principales retos de la digitalizaci\u00f3n de los servicios de salud. “Las herramientas digitales no solo deben usarse de manera reactiva en salud mental. La inteligencia artificial y los macrodatos se pueden aprovechar para comprender el impacto y la escala de los problemas de salud mental que surgen en respuesta a la pandemia”, explica el art\u00edculo de The Lancet. A trav\u00e9s de modelos de aprendizaje autom\u00e1tico en mensajes de texto SMS y datos de redes sociales, se han publicado estudios que han detectado un aumento en el lenguaje relacionado a problemas de salud mental, relacionados a COVID-19. Sin embargo, no es necesario recurrir solamente a tecnolog\u00eda sofisticada, en Reino Unido se han realizado estudios que recopilando datos sobre impacto de la pandemia en el bienestar de las personas a trav\u00e9s de encuestas en l\u00ednea y llamadas telef\u00f3nicas. \u201cSin embargo, la comunidad investigadora debe tomarse el tiempo para abordar cuestiones fundamentales como la representatividad de las muestras de poblaci\u00f3n y la validez cl\u00ednica. De las medidas utilizadas para definir e identificar las condiciones de salud mental y, por supuesto, las cuestiones \u00e9ticas que rodean la recopilaci\u00f3n de datos y la privacidad\u201d, explica el art\u00edculo editorial. Y cierra explicando que las herramientas digitales pueden ser una forma eficaz de brindar apoyo en salud mental a gran escala durante la pandemia. Sin embargo, los investigadores y profesionales son una parte importante para la implementaci\u00f3n de este tipo de tecnolog\u00edas, que adem\u00e1s de brindar acceso a salud durante tiempos de emergencia, tambi\u00e9n logren brindar servicios de salud equitativos y diversos a la poblaci\u00f3n. BIBLIOGRAF\u00cdA THE LANCET https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/landig\/article\/PIIS2589-7500(21)00045-5\/fulltext<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,153,3394,1418,3396],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-13381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comunidades-conectadas","category-plataformas-digitales","category-redes-sociales","category-resena-de-publicaciones-cientificas","category-uso-de-plataformas-digitales","tag-noticias"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}