Author | Study Design | Setting | Participants | Type of Technology | Intervention | Outcome Measure |
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Kurki et al. (2018) | Cohort study | Outpatient clinics & university hospitals, adolescent psychiatry services, Finland |
N = 70 young people (13–17 years) N = 9 nurses |
Online platform / website | Support platform (wellbeing, coping skills and self-reflection) | Exploration |
Rowe et al., (2020) | Cohort study | Primary mental health services, Australia | N = 120 young people | Online platform / website | n/a | Feasibility / usability |
Gabrielli et al. (2020) | Pilot feasibility evaluation | Secondary school |
N = 20 young people (co-design workshop) N = 21 young people (evaluation) |
Online platform / website | Co-design workshop | Feasibility |
Snijder et al., (2021) | Cross-sectional cohort study | Schools × 4, Australia | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people aged 12–14 years | Online platform / website | n/a | Design/acceptability/usability |
Marsch and Borodovsky (2016) | Review | Primary care, schools, homes, medical settings, and universities | Young people | Online platform / website | Substance misuse prevention (CLIMATE, Head On, Thinking Not Drinking, RealTeen) | Efficacy |
Crum and Comer (2016) | Review | Unspecified | Families accessing mental health care | Online platform / website | Various family-orientated psychological interventions | Feasibility |
Schueller et al. (2017) | Review | Unspecified | Young people | Online platform / website | n/a | Usability / engagement |
Town et al. (2017) | Cross-sectional qualitative interviews | London CAMHS team with a low utilisation of the platform | N = 6 practitioners with low utilisation of the platform | Online platform / website | n/a | Acceptability/ feasibility |
Wozney et al., (2017) | Review | Unspecified | Young people accessing psychotherapy | Online platform / website | Internet-based psychotherapy (IPT & CBT) | Efficacy |
Babiano-Espinosa et al., (2019) | Systematic review | Unspecified | Young people aged 4–18 with OCD | Online platform / website | Traditional CBT with Internet-based CBT | Acceptability/feasibility/ efficacy |
Radovic et al. (2020) | Case series | Primary care | n = 14 primary care providers/physicians | Online platform / website | Pre-intervention focus group | Implementation strategy development |
Wall et al. (2018) | Review | Unspecified | n/a | App / game | Use of technology for research with children | Exploration |
Day et al. (2019) | Review | Australian schools | Children aged 6–12. n = 3460 children have contributed to the data | App / game | Assessment administered via an interactive game played on computer or iPads | Acceptability/ feasibility |
Boström et al. (2016) | Cross-sectional feasibility and validity study | 18 schools in Sweden | n = 113 students in special education aged 12–16 and their parents and teachers | App / game | WellSEQ—wellbeing in special education questionnaire, an app for tablets | Feasibility/ acceptability/ validity |
O'Grady et al. (2020) | Cohort study | Secondary school in Ireland | Practitioners from mental health services and secondary school students | App / game | SafePlan app: Suicide prevention and wellness | Usability |
Wolters et al., (2017) | Review | Unspecified—mental health services | Young people experiencing OCD | App / game | Technology empowered CBT (tCBT) for paediatric OCD | Exploration |
Davidson et al., (2019) | Cross sectional pilot evaluation | Four different Community MH settings | n = 13 providers and n = 27 families | App / game | Novel tablet-based App designed to enhance trauma-focused CBT (TF-CBT) | Acceptability |
Carrasco (2016) | Cohort cross-sectional study | Two different schools, Chile | n = 5 therapists and n = 15 young women with depression aged 14–18 | App / game | Videogame following structures of CBT and IPT for depression. Private forum that includes information and self-care | Acceptability |
Merry et al., (2020) | Cross sectional cohort study | New Zealand, Child and young person mental health | Practitioners, young people | Other PC software | HABITS (Health Advances through Behavioural Interventional Technologies): e-health interventions, referral support and screening, participant pool for clinical trials | Feasibility/acceptability |
Chou et al. (2016) | Review | Unspecified | n/a | Video-related technology | Video-teleconferencing | Recommendations |
Eapen et al., (2021) | Case study | Psychiatry services, Australia | N = 5 child and adolescent psychiatry trainees | Video-related technology | Assessing clinician attitudes and thoughts after the introduction of e-mental health into a psychiatry service | Feasibility/ exploration |
Sequeira et al., (2019) | Review | Child and adolescent psychiatry | Children and young people | Other technology | Digital phenotyping as an assessment for adolescent depression | Exploration/ feasibility/ efficacy |
Liverpool et al., (2020) | Systematic review | Unspecified | Children and young people participating within digital mental health interventions | Mixed | n/a | Exploration |
Batastini (2016) | Review | Juvenile offending services | Juvenile offenders | Mixed | Various | Efficacy |
Hollis et al. (2017) | Systematic and meta-review | Unspecified—mental health services | Young people accessing mental health services (including ADHD, ASD, psychosis, eating disorders, and PTSD) | Mixed | Various | Efficacy |
Owens and Charles (2016) | Feasibility long-term cohort study | CAMHS England | 1 clinician/client dyad | SMS | SMS text messaging for young people that self-harm | Feasibility |
Gearing et al. (2021) | Randomised control trial | USA, young people accessing psychotherapy for depression | n = 20 young people with depression, with a mean age of 14 years | SMS/phone calls | Tech Connect -contacting individuals between sessions using SMS personalised messaging (8 weekly messages), and 3 telephone calls to parents | Feasibility / acceptability |