Table 2.
Uptake and usage data.
| Publication | Intervention (data collection period) | Registrations/downloads (time period in months) | Average registrations /downloads per month | At least minimal use | Moderate use | Completion or sustained use |
| Christensen et al (2002) [24]a | MoodGYM Mark I (Apr 2001 to Sep 2001) |
2909 (6) | 485 | 51.7% completed at least one depression assessment | 16% completed at least two depression assessments | Not stated |
| Christensen et al (2004) [25] | MoodGYM Mark I (Apr 2001 to Sep 2003) |
19,607 (30) | 654 | 62% completed at least one depression assessment | 15.6% completed two or more modules | 0.5% completed a noncompulsory assessment at beginning of the last module |
| Christensen et al (2006) [26] | MoodGYM Mark II (Sep 2003 to Oct 2004) |
38,791 (14) | 2,770 | 69% completed at least one depression assessment | Less than 7% progressed beyond two modules | Not stated |
| Batterham et al (2008) [27]b | MoodGYM Mark II (Jan 2006 to Apr 2007) |
82,159 (16) | 5135 | 37% completed one or more modules | 10% completed 2 or more modules | Not stated |
| Neil et al (2009) [28] | MoodGYM Mark II (Jan 2006 to Nov 2007—adolescents) |
7207 (23) | 313 | 40.6% completed one or more modules | 11.1% completed 2 or more modules | 2.8% completed all 5 modules |
| Al-Asadi et al (2014) [18] | Anxiety Online (Oct 2009 to Jan 2012) |
9394 persons completed assessmentc (28) | 336 | 33.1% accepted and commenced self-help programd | Not stated | 3.7% of those who completed the first assessment also completed the post-treatment assessment |
| Lara et al (2014) [29] | HDep (Mar 2009 to Apr 2013) |
17,318 persons registered and entered site at least twicee (50) | 346 | 71.4% completed the first module | 10% of users did module 4 (users could miss modules, so may not have completed 4) | Not stated |
| Menzies et al (2016) [19] | CBTPsych (Aug 2011 to Mar 2014) |
267 (32) | 8 | 88% logged on at least once | 39% completed 4 or more modules | 19.5% completed all 7 modules |
| Owen et al (2015) [20] | PTSD Coach (Mar 2011 to June 2014) |
153,834 (36) | 4273 | 61.1% returned to use the app after the day it was installed | 52.1% continued to use app 1 week after installation; 41.6% continued to used app 1 month after installation | No specific completion point; however, 28.6% continued to use the app after 3 months, 19.4% continued after 6 months, and 10.6% after 1 year |
| Lattie et al (2016) [30] | Intellicare Apps (Sep 2014 to Oct 2015) |
5210 (13) | 401 | 84.1% of downloaded apps were launched at least once; between 38.7% and 70.2% of users used apps for at least one day | Between 4.7% and 35.7% (depending on specific app) of active users used the app on 10 or more occasions; between 13.1% and 23.3% used the app for 28 or more days | Not stated |
| Carpenter et al (2016) [23] | Happify (Dec 2014 to May 2016) |
Total downloads not reported. 720,952 persons completed an assessment (18)f | 40,053 | 21.2% of those who had completed an assessment at registration completed at least one more assessmentf | 20.6% also completed an assessment at 2 weeks, 7.2% completed an assessment at 4 weeksf | 3.5% completed an assessment at 6 weeks, 2.1% completed an assessment at 8 weeks |
aThe timeframe covered in this study is a subset of that reported by Christensen et al [25] for the same intervention, but the 2002 study reports some data that are not reported in the 2004 study.
bThe timeframe reported in this study is a subset of that reported by Neil et al [28] for the same intervention. However, this study reports data for all registrants, whereas Neil et al’s [28] study only reports data for adolescent users.
cPersons (n=9394) completed an online assessment and were then offered an online self-help or therapist-assisted program. No other indications of registration are reported.
dPersons (n=3107) selected and commenced an online self-help program; they did not formally withdraw and were not recorded as “in progress” at the time of the publication.
eNo other registration data were reported.
fAssessments were not compulsory.