Table 2.
Apps used for Self-Care Project.
| Name | Description | Criteria Fulfilled |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iOS and Android available | No cost or trial period | Scientific evidence for app’s efficacy | Evidence-based features included | Culturally tailored | Citations of scientific evidence | ||
| MoodTools | Evidence-based app that provides six CBT-informed tools to aid against clinical depression and negative moods. | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | Su and Anderson (2022) | |
| FearTools | Evidence-based app designed with six CBT-informed tools to help users combat anxiety and stress. | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | |||
| Intellicare | A suite of apps that work together to help people deal with common causes of stress, depression, and anxiety. | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | Mohr et al. (2017); Mohr et al. (2019); Graham et al. (2020) | ||
| PTSD Coach | App designed by the VA for those who have, or may have, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Tools include relaxation skills, positive self-talk, and anger management. | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | Bröcker et al., (2022); Hallenbeck et al. (2022); Owen et al. (2015) | ||
| The Safe Place | App geared towards the Black community to bring more awareness, education, and hope about mental health and treatment-seeking challenges within this population. | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | |||
| Headspace | App that focuses on science-backed meditation and mindfulness tools to support mental health and well-being. | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | Economides et al. (2018); Howells et al. (2016); Bostock et al. (2019); Kubo et al. (2018); Abbott et al. (2021) | ||