Article Excerpt: Lisa Marsch, the director of the Dartmouth Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, told STAT that the new meta-review highlights the limitations of existing literature, including that researchers often don’t dig into variables that can impact outcomes and rarely reported adverse effects. She said one of the downsides is that meta-analyses tend to group together interventions that may be quite different from each other, like a mobile app that delivers a “potent therapeutic approach” like cognitive behavioral therapy and another that provides inspirational messages or tips. Each might have different levels of clinical impact.
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