Mobile technology for psychologists

App Review: Finally a free and safe way for telemental health practice

2014-06-15T01:18:00.001-04:00

Telemental health practice is getting more and more recognition every day. Studies are proving it's efficacy, more so if using video feed. Although many practitioners want to get on the bandwagon, most don't know about legislations and regulations present in the United-States or in Canada. The most comprehensive and complete legislation being the USA standards of HIPAA. Being HIPAA compliant means having a program that is safe, secure and that has an audit trail.

Most practitioners and patients think that the popular videoconferencing platform, Skype, is safe, but in reality, Skype is not HIPAA compliant. I would recommend to you: VSee.
A free videoconferencing platform that is HIPAA compliant. It also has many other advantages. You can videoconference with many others at the same time, you can share windows and applications, you can transfer documents and it will work with low bandwidth, which means less drop calls and more reliable connection with your patients.

VSee works on Mac, PC, IPhone, IPad and now on Android phone and tablet. This app changed my practice, give it a try, knowing that this is a safe way to practice telemental health.

For more information visit the VSee website [here]

Jocelyn Morettini

Health Psychologist / Neuropsychologist

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App Review: Cognitive behavioral therapy of anxiety with SAM

2014-01-18T16:57:00.002-05:00

Anxiety disorders have a large spectrum of effects. Excessive anxiety or pathological levels of anxiety is a very common complain in any mental health practice. Pathologically high levels of anxiety will require specific therapeutic approach, but for all those patients who need light to moderate help; for all those patients who need a bit of guidance to explore for themselves there own problem in-between two appointments, this app might be a good solution.

SAM app has been developed in collaboration with a research team from University of the West of England, Bristol. It is a CBT of the second and third wave approach that includes aspects of mindfulness. It ask patient to recognize physical discomfort, emotions, thoughts and desire to avoid anxiogenic stimuli. It will plot the self reports so you and the patient can observe the progress of the therapy. SAM offers general but accurate information about anxiety. It also offers lots of coping tools with many level of "difficulty": physical relaxation, mental relaxation, managing your thoughts, gradual exposition to the emotion or to the anxiogenic stimuli, offers general health recommendation and ways to stop avoidance. You can choose what works best and build from that. The app offers social cloud so you can share your thoughts in a forum. After glancing over the posts, I would not recommend this feature to my patients, and I would ask them to stay away from it. It does not create any advantages and risks, actually, reinforcing thoughts of anxiety or despair.

The other drawback is that this app does not seem to possess a password to access the app and all it's very personal content (thoughts, progress, etc.). All in all, if your patient locks his mobile device, this app represent a serious tool for battling anxiety.

For more information visit the SAM website [here]

Jocelyn Morettini

Health Psychologist / Neuropsychologist

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App Update: PTSD Coach now for canadians, both in English and French

2013-10-21T23:44:00.001-04:00

PTSD Coach has been originally created by the United-State's National center for PTSD (for US veterans). The Canadian Veterans Affairs has updated de PTSD Coach app for Canadian usage. References are made for Canadians, and most importantly, it is now available in French under the name ESPT Coach Canada.

If the estimated prevalence of lifetime PTSD is 6.8% in the general population. This means that the app could now offer help up too almost 15 million worldwide French speaking person suffering from PTSD once in there life. That is great news!

For both original reviews go here or here

For more information visit the PTSD Coach Canada website [here]

Jocelyn Morettini

Health Psychologist / Neuropsychologist

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App Review: Bipolar disorder therapy with an App, a small revolution.

2013-08-06T11:27:00.001-04:00

Bipolar disorder can create severe handicaps and impacts in a patient life. Since bipolar disorder affects many rhythms like sleep, activity level, thought process or mood regulation, the traditional therapy works on regulating life on a daily basis. Having a healthy portion of social activity, physical activity, sleep, or eating regularly are some of the ways to cope with bipolar disorder. Improving the regularity of rhythms has been a recognize tool, out of many, to treat bipolar disorder. Now comes the Moodrhythm app which is a traditional bipolar therapy tool but with some real novel advantages.

The usual problem with daily paper diary of activity is that most of the time it will be incomplete. Forgotten here or there, to busy to do it, whatever the reason, the data recover from it will only be partial. Using an app to input the data would be more easy since it's more mobile then a paper diary. Still, patient could forget to enter the information in the app. That's where Moodrhythm makes a difference. It utilizes the on-board sensors of a phone to gather information on the patient's activity level . The sensors are: microphone, light sensors and accelerometer. It helps to monitor sleep, mood, physical and social levels. To this, will be added the traditional daily diary. Standard activities are built in to it, but you can add your own.

Has security goes, the app doesn't record or listen in conversations. It actually recognize variations in pitch, volume, speaking rate and other characteristics to measure emotional states level of the patient. The accelerometer and light sensor combined will give information on sleep, rest or physical activity. All that data can then be put to use for therapy by a mental health professional. This app has been developed by Cornell University. It's inventors have won the prestigious $100,000 Heritage Open mHealth Challenge for it. Available on android and iPhone for free. It was impossible to install on our android phones. Certain bugs are in need of fixing.

For more information visit the Moodrhythm web site [here]

Jocelyn Morettini

Health Psychologist / Neuropsychologist

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Android App Review: Medical Abbreviations

2013-05-18T12:58:00.000-04:00

So you're reading your patient medical file... It's writen that your patient is " CCF, COPD, HTN with IDD that contributed to a CVI. He is now taking Synthroid TID and Ativan IM PRN. He is now T.S.T.H. " How will you establish the correct treatment plan if you can not understand the diagnostic? The BBC repported that 5% of medical errors were related to abbreviations in the file that were not understood. The inter-juge accor for an abbreviation in non-medical health professional is only 30 to 63%. Enough to create a lot of confusion and mistakes. This App will help you understand the medical abbreviations in English, but also their French, Spanish, German, Polish, Russian and Dutch version.

For more information visit the Medical abbreviations website [here]

Jocelyn Morettini

Health Psychologist / Neuropsychologist

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Making learning accessible: on all platforms

2013-04-16T23:09:00.001-04:00

Being neuropsychologist or psychologist you will have, at one point or another, to encourage your patients to learn new materiel. A traumatic brain injury patient might have to learn the names and faces of its therapists, but could not. A stroke patient might have aphasia or visual agnosia, and he would need cognitive remediation. Your patient with relational problems might need to remind himself of his maladaptive schema triggers. The scenarios are endless, has there are subjects to be learned.

What Anki does for you and your patient is to give you a learning platform based on flashcards. On one side you have the question, and on the other the answer. Everything is customizable to your liking. You can use text, picture, audio or even video on all flashcards. You simply use the medium that is appropriated to the materiel that you want to learn. Now, where Anki becomes a real innovative tool is in its capability to create statistics and different frequency of repetitions based on your learning curve. Each time you answer, Anki will ask you to what level was it easy for you to get the it right. According to that, the program will plot a recurrence frequency that will suit your needs. You will also be able to distribute that frequency on a timeframe of your choice. That is to say that you can learn intensively for a week or in your spare time over the next month, it’s your choice to make.

Anki is an open source program. It can be used on a PC, Mac, Android, IPhone, Linux or web based interface. All those platforms can be linked together by cloud computing. So the learning you did on your Android phone, while you were on the move, can be continued at home on your PC. The only drawback for this App is that you cannot lock the access to the program (although you can lock your access to your account). Many decks already exist and they are freely available. You can also make and publish your own deck. In the end not only your patients will use it, but probably you will also.

For more information visit the ANKI web site [here]

Jocelyn Morettini

Health Psychologist / Neuropsychologist

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Canadian brain injury center wants your used smartphone!

2012-11-05T09:27:00.000-05:00

Dear readers,

Community Head Injury Resources Services of Toronto (CHIRS), recently launched a new and unique rehabilitation initiative called the cTech program that uses mobile technologies (e.g. iPhone, smartphones & tablets) to assist in acquired brain injury (ABI) rehabilitation. The program utilizes a host of strategies that range from group learning and peer mentorship to errorless learning to help clients make use of innovative technologies to compensate for their cognitive impairments.

As part of the initiative, CHIRS is giving away donated devices to persons with an ABI enrolled in the program.

We are asking you to consider donating your used smartphones or tablets to the cTech program. Once the device is received, it will be inspected, cleaned and purged of private data. A letter will then be sent to the donor. A Canadian tax credit corresponding to the value of the device will then be issued before tax season.

Did you know that CHIRS originally known as the Ashby House, was the first community-based brain injury rehabilitation program in North America? CHIRS is a registered not-for-profit charitable organization that aims to improve the quality of life for people living with the effects of acquired brain injury (ABI).

The cTech program is proud to offer Memory-Link pioneered by Dr. Brian Richards at Baycrest Hospital [watch the youtube video].

Please share this message with others!

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Sylvain Roy, C.Psych.
Clinical Neuropsychologist
Community Head Injury Resource Services
62 Finch Avenue West
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M2N 7G1
Tel: (416) 240-8000
ctech@chirs.com

iOS app review: The therapy Outcome Management System

2012-08-25T17:35:00.001-04:00

I recently discovered a cleverly designed iOS app designed to assess therapy outcome. The app is easy to use, secure and useful for monitoring a client's progress during therapy.

TOMS contains the Outcome Ratings Scale (Miller & Duncan, 2000), which looks at the client's well-being (overall, personal, family, and social) and the Session Rating Scale (Johnson, Miller & Duncan, 2000), which quickly evaluates patients' experience during a session (e.g., quality of the relationship, client-therapist fit, etc.).

The app is password protected and adequately organizes your client files. Client profiles are easily added, the questionaire are quickly administered, the rating scales are easy to navigate, and a graph allows you to see progress over time. An email feature is provided if you wish to export the data.

For more information visit the TOMS web site [here]

Download the app from the US App store [here] for $14.99

Sylvain Roy, Ph.D., neuropsychologist

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If you could get your mobile device to do one thing, what would it be?

2012-08-25T15:02:00.000-04:00

Friendly professional survey:

I use smartphones and tablets for brain injury rehabilitation and assessments.

If you could get your mobile device to do one thing, what would it be?

Android App review : ASK before it's too late. Prevent suicide.

2012-08-11T04:59:00.000-04:00

Suicidal risk or tentative is an intricate part of any mental health professional. Having to promote life in suicidal patient is delicate and sometimes complex thing to do. Considering the prevalence numbers in our western societies, having more tools seems a necessity.

This program has no cool graphics, no interactivity, and no more information than a web page. So why would we bother talking about it? Simply because it does what it’s supposed to do: create a one click access to important information and to get immediate support.

The ASK & Prevent Suicide app provides basic information about suicidal risk for patient and their loved ones. Having the information readily available in your pocket will diminish steps needed to get help (in turn increase the likelihood of getting help). A plus, is that it’s always available, even if you don’t have a WiFi or data connection. The ASK & Prevent Suicide app also offers hotline numbers for Suicide Prevention, for Veterans and for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning. One click and you’re on the phone with the proper hotline. These hotlines are only available in the United States.

Having more people armed to face suicidal risks will only help to save lives.

Created by Mental Health America of Texas

Jocelyn Morettini

Health Psychologist / Neuropsychologist

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Making the Most of Mobile Technology in Private Practice

2012-05-08T17:57:00.000-04:00

I thought this article might interest some readers.

"Making the Most of Mobile Technology in Private Practice," from the May/June 2012 issue of The California Psychologist's "Technology and Psychology" By Yvette Tazeau, Ph.D.

Dropbox for iOS and Android: A great way to share files, but is it secure enough for health professionals?

2012-04-28T18:21:00.001-04:00

I recently installed dropbox on several of my devices (Android tablet, iPhone, Dell Windows 7 laptop and Macbook pro).

I was immediately amazed at how easy it became to share files (e-books, PowerPoint presentations, documents, videos etc.) to all my devices and my colleagues. I could now download a few articles at home, put them in my dropbox and read them on the train on my way to work. No more need for my usb memory stick and no more headaches when trying to get files on my iPad or iPhone.

I was left with one question. What about the privacy and confidentiality settings. I have always been cautious when using cloud base services because I am hesitant about letting others safeguard my confidential information.

Unfortunately Dropbox is not currently HIPAA compliant, but I was surprised to see that it was sensitive to the issue. Further diligence should be exercised when using mobile devices as well. As is described in their Security overview page "Your files are sent between Dropbox’s mobile apps and our servers over a secure channel using 256-bit SSL encryption where supported. Not all mobile media players support encrypted streaming, so media files streamed from our servers are not always encrypted".

Overall, I am happy with Dropbox. It will help my colleagues and I share non confidential information easily and help us increase productivity. You may be interested in how Dropbox compares to competitors such as Microsoft (SkyDrive) and Google (Google Drive) on proprietary matters. Here is a legal commentary on who owns your data by John Halton and Kathryn Leslie.

If you want to try Dropbox [Click here] - It's free and very easy to use.

Sylvain Roy, Ph.D

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iOS app review : Dell Voice offers free Canadian phone numbers with free long distance calls

2012-02-12T09:02:00.000-05:00

During my discussions with clients and professionals, I am frequently asked if there is an app to make free phone calls from iPods, iPhones or Android devices. I always say yes, and that I had tested a few of them. The United States has been fortunate to have Google Voice to make free calls to the US and Canada. Talkatone is an app that takes advantage of this service. Getting a free Google Voice number is however a little difficult for Canadians to obtain (you need a valid US number for the activation).

As such, Canadians have been left with low cost alternatives such as Skype and Nettalk and Talkatone (with Google Talk only) for outgoing calls. There was no easy way to get a Canadian number for incoming calls, until now. Dell Canada has paired up Fongo to provide a unique Canadian experience. the new app is called Dell Voice.

Dell Voice is very easy to setup. Simply download the free app from the Apple app store. Once installed, tap "register". You will be brought to the next page and Canada will be set a the default. Tap continue. You will then need to provide a valid email account, a contact phone number, set a password and enter the capcha, then click continue. An email will be sent to you. Go to your email and click the activation link and follow the online instructions. Once you are complete, go back into Dell Voice and enter your email and password and voila! you will have a free phone.

The pro's of the phone are:

Decent call quality over wifi/3g.
It's free and you can call many cities in the US and Canada for free.
You get a real Canadian number.
Even if the app is turned off, your phone will ring.
It's easy to setup.
It doesn't use a lot of data.
Free voice mail service.

The con's of the phone are:

Some static or choppy quality when the 3g connection is weak.
If the app is powered off, your phone will ring but you will miss the call due to the delay (will go to voice mail).
Sometimes, you will need to log off and log back in to use the phone (will not fully activate)
Ads from Dell (I can live with this).
No texting option (I recommend downloading Text+ for the free texting equivalent).

Overall, the pro's in my opinion outweigh the cons. My clients love the app because their cell phone bills can stay at approximately $20 / month by combining Dell Voice with their Bell Canada 3g data tablet plan. It's not perfect, but as my clients say. It beat spaying $75+ dollars every month.

You can download the app [here]

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iOS app review: iTunes U - Bringing free university lectures to your iPhone

2012-01-22T14:55:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone, I just stumbled on a great app called iTunes U. It's filled with great psychology talks and lectures! It's perfect if your looking for a refresher course or if you are looking to learn something entirely new. Simply search for psychology or counseling (or the topics of your choice) by tapping the magnifying glass at the bottom right of the page, tap on the title, then tap on "free" to download the audio or video file. Once the download begins, you can start listening to it immediately by tapping on the title (it needs a few seconds to buffer). Have a look and tell me what you think. It's Free!

You can download the app [here]

Sylvain Roy, Ph.D.

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iOS app review: iCouch CBT

2011-12-31T14:07:00.000-05:00

Some time ago, I was asked to look into a new CBT app called iCouch CBT. I was immediately seduced by the graphical interface and the ability to password protect sensitive information. To my knowledge, this is the first psychology app that offers a feature to protect a client's right to privacy. The app also provides an overview of CBT, which is useful for clients who want to understand the philosophy behind the technique. The interface is free of clutter and a home button makes it easy to return to the home page.

When the person using the app is faced with an anxiety provoking situation, he or she can document the event by clicking on "what happened". This person will then be asked to describe his or her negative thought and rate the felt emotion(s). The next step involves describing the cognitive distortion(s) (e.g. mental filter, should-be statements, blaming etc.), and input "a better thought" and a more adaptive behaviour. The client is then prompted to reassess his or her thoughts and feelings. Another wonderful feature of the app is its ability to save and email logs. This can provide valuable information to the therapist who can track the number of incidences and their intensities over time.

Have you tried this app in your practice? What are your thoughts?

You can download the app here for $1.99 [link]

Sylvain Roy, Ph.D.

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Voice Actions for iOS and Android: Not the new Siri, but the next best thing

2011-12-17T10:09:00.000-05:00

Need an app that can control your phone through speech commands? Both Voice actions and Siri are powered by Nuance, the company that brought us Dragon Dictate. This app will be extremely useful for clients who have trouble writing email or navigating the touch screen. In fact, it can search for music and locations, set alarms, send text messages and search the web. I plan to recommend the app to clients. I'll report back later to let people know how it was received by individuals with acquired brain injury. I don't recommend dictating any confidential information as the information is processed on the Nuance servers.

You can download the app here for $4.99 [link]

Here is a youtube video on it [link]

Sylvain Roy, Ph.D.

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Android App Review: Cognitive remediation for working memory

2011-12-04T14:39:00.000-05:00

If you have a patient with working memory or attention deficits, this app could be a very useful tool to use with him or her. The “Memory Trainer” android app focuses on working memory, spatial span and selective attention. Training is encompassed in six different exercises. One exercise involves generating a ToDo lists with full length sentences. The patient is then asked to remember parts of the sentences. The exercise is thus very ecological and potentially generalizable to real life.

You can choose to do a progressive training over 20 sessions or decide your activity and difficulty level. The app will log your session performance and plot it on a graph. This graph can be useful for the neuropsychologist wanting to follow-up on the client's progress, to confront them on their limitations or motivate them if needed.

The app, created by Urbian Inc, will also offer tips on ways to improve memory. For example, chunking information together, creating imagery, recommending healthy life styles, etc. Finally, the app also gives some information about what is short term memory. And it’s free.

Jocelyn Morettini

Health Psychologist / Neuropsychologist

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SITE UPDATE: iPHONE, iPOD TOUCH AND iPAD APPS FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS

2011-12-04T14:38:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone: I just updated the iOS app list for psychologists. Great new finds were added. Take a look and let us know if we're missing an app.

Please share the list with your colleagues.

http://sylvainroy.blogspot.com/2011/02/iphone-apps-for-psychologists.html

Sylvain Roy, Ph.D.

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Android News: It's the end of Google App Inventor

2011-11-13T23:00:00.000-05:00

The App Inventor Beta did not make the cut. Although it was a good idea for creators, Google is dropping this project. You will have up until December 31, 2011 to download all your projects. After that, everything will be deleted from Google's server.

By the end of the year Google will make publicly available the complete App inventor source code. For now, no other open source instance is available to take up the relay for your App Inventor projects. Instead, Google will be funding the center for Mobile Learning at the MIT Media Lab.

Hopefully there will be someone who's going to follow up on that idea.

Jocelyn Morettini

Health Psychologist / Neuropsychologist

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iOS app review: It's Done! A new task manager for clients with mild memory difficulties.

2011-11-07T17:54:00.000-05:00

It's Done! is available for $2.99 at the App Store

Have you ever wondered whether a "to do" app for clients with mild memory impairments exists? It's done is a task manager that lets people manage daily activities. It has the power to send immediate "completed" notifications to caregivers (or clinicians), making behaviour tracking easy.

On the upside, the app is well designed and simple to use. It displays the current time, date and day of the week, and tasks can be added, organized and edited easily. They can be made recurrent, and reminders can be set easily. Other useful features include having easy access to past or future events, and the ability to check off completed items.

On the downside, the app only provides one reminder. It can also get cluttered as there is no task auto-hide feature. Finally, the app has the potential to "leak" sensitive information and cause patients distress if the wrong contact information is entered for notifications. Caregivers and clinicians should pay special attention to this and discuss how to take steps to reduce risks.

I highly recommend this application as it is unique and can be used by anyone who is distractible or who have memory difficulties. I would love to see case studies which examine whether the app leads to measurable changes in patients’ life satisfaction, functioning, and memory and caregiver stress. I suspect that the app could be used in more severe cases if proper training and tools are provided (e.g.: Svoboda, E., Richards, B., Polsinelli, A., & Guger, S. (2010). Neuropsychological Rehabilitation).

To download the app or obtain more information visit the developers website [here]
The it's done app can be downloaded [here]

Sylvain Roy, Ph.D.
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iPad & Apps for autism - Interesting resources.

2011-10-28T11:13:00.000-04:00

Good Friday everyone! A colleague sent me this video I thought I would share [CBS News - 60 minutes] and the transcript [Here]. Here is another resources for Special Education (authored by: Eric Sailers & based on a list by Samuel Sennott, Eric Sailers, & David Niemeijer [See PDF file here].

Sylvain Roy, Ph.D.

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Blog update: iPhone Rehabilitation Program

2011-10-23T10:45:00.000-04:00

I have been working on a brain injury rehabilitation project at the Community Head Injury Resource Services (CHIRS) in Toronto, Canada. We have been using iPhones to help clients with memory and other cognitive impairments (see Dr. Richards lecture on the Memory Link Program [here]). We are expanding the project and using the devices to compensate for other cognitive impairments.

As part of this initiative, we are even offering Canadian tax credit for iPhone donations. If you would like to know more about our new iPhone program please feel free to contact me or check out ad [here].

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iOS App Review: The Questions App by Dr. Martindale

2011-10-10T12:41:00.000-04:00

From a clinical point of view, this app can help individuals gain insight (and identify potential sources of conflict) into their relationships by asking basic questions everyone probably should ask themselves before making a serious commitment. It has the potential to transform vague feelings into clear ideas. It can also be used as a relationship builder (a sort of game) for those who have been together for sometime. This could potentially be used with high functioning individuals during therapy.

The app itself is well designed and uncluttered and also has the ability to share the results to Facebook or by Email (which could be useful if thought of more as a game). As a clinician, I would like to see additional features to protect private information such as password protection (this goes for all the apps dealing with sensitive data). Overall, however, I think the app does what it says it will: It increases self awareness and provides insight about your relationships. If you are a psychologist, have you assessed its utility in your clinic?

The Questions App is based on Dr. Martindale's work which can be found on her website [here]

It can be purchased from the app store for $3.99 [here]

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Android News: Create a full Android App on your own, for free.

2011-07-26T17:00:00.000-04:00

Android has now taken the major part of the smartphone market. If you look at the new acquiring’s, Android is now taking 50% of the market in the last six months. To continue boosting their presence in the market, Google just released a new program in beta testing phase. The “Android App Inventor” is a tool which lets you create an application without any programming experience. This means you can just drag and drop some widgets and your android app will be ready to use. Although easy in theory, you still need to be somewhat computer savvy to create your own app. In essence, many will have to wait for the program to evolve from the beta testing phase into a ready to use program.

It is time for most of you to start thinking about making your own Android App, without having any programming skills. Start creating!

Jocelyn Morettini

Health Psychologist / Neuropsychologist

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Android App Review: The Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale for free

2011-07-17T16:38:00.000-04:00

You are outside your office, at the bedside of a patient, and you need your tools to evaluate your patient’s mood state. The Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale is a well validated questionnaire that can answer your needs [see references]. This scale as a long and a short version, 42 and 21 questions [get it here]. The questionnaire is contains three scales: Depression, Anxiety and Stress. It is available in 28 languages [get it here] and has been validated for online use [see reference].

You can now have your own copy of DASS (long version) with the DAS Scale Android app (created by Radiant Monkey software). This app is straightforward and very user friendly. Once you have finished taking the test, you will receive the raw scores for the three scales and the appropriate normative interpretations. All the data can be exported has .db files either on the SD card or send by email (readable by programs such has SQLite).

Jocelyn Morettini
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