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Combining AI and human support in mental health: a digital intervention with comparable effectiveness to human-delivered care

Clare E Palmer, Emily Marshall, Edward Millgate, Graham Warren, Michael P. Ewbank, Elisa Cooper, Sam Lawes, Alastair Smith, Chris Hutchins-Joss, Jessica Young, Malika Bouazzaoui, Morad Margoum, Sandra Healey, Louise Marshall, Shaun Mehew, Ronan Cummins, Valentin Tablan, Ana Catarino, Andrew E Welchman and Andrew D Blackwell

Research Paper

2024

Researchers conducted a study with 299 UK participants to evaluate if the digital program was acceptable and engaging, and if it was safe & effective in improving symptoms of anxiety, worry or stress.

The importance of waiting time and clinical effectiveness in mental healthcare, and economic evaluation

Catarino, A., Harper S., Malcolm, R., Stainthorpe, A., Warren, G., Margoum, M., Hooper, J., Blackwell, A.D, Welchman, A.E.

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2023

Economic evaluation of 27,540 patients with mood and anxiety disorders and the importance of waiting time and clinical effectiveness in mental healthcare

The relationship between patient language and outcomes

Ewbank, M. P., Cummins, R., Tablan, V., Catarino, A., Buchholz, S., & Blackwell, A. D.

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2021

ieso commissioned this research study, using a deep learning approach, to understand the relationship between patient language and outcomes in internet-enabled cognitive behavioural therapy.

Depressive states and state transitions in CBT

Catarino, A., Fawcett, J. M., Ewbank, M. P., Bateup, S., Cummins, R., Tablan, V., & Blackwell, A. D.

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2020

ieso uses a data-driven approach to define fluid depressive states and explore how patients transition between these states in response to cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

Using tech to associate therapist variables with outcomes

Bateup, S., Palmer, C., & Catarino, A.

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2020

ieso uses therapy transcripts derived from internet enabled cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) treatment sessions to understand how therapist variables are associated with clinical outcomes in IAPT

Associating psychotherapy content and clinical outcomes

Ewbank, M. P., Cummins, R., Tablan, V., Bateup, S., Catarino, A., Martin, A. J., & Blackwell, A. D.

Research Paper

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2019

In this study, ieso adopts a deep learning model to automatically categorize therapist utterances from approximately 90 000 hours of internet-enabled cognitive behavior therapy (CBT).

TIM: Psychotherapy insights tool

Cummins, R., Ewbank, M. P., Martin, A., Tablan, V., Catarino, A., & Blackwell, A. D.

Research Paper

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2019

ieso introduces and demonstrates the usefulness of a tool that automatically annotates therapist utterances in real-time according to the therapeutic role

Demographic and clinical predictors of outcome

Catarino, A., Bateup, S., Tablan, V., Innes, K., Freer, S., Richards, A., ... & Blackwell, A. D.

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2018

This study, commissioned by ieso, investigates the demographic and clinical predictors of response to one-to-one CBT delivered via the internet

The use of internet-enabled cognitive behavioural therapy in the treatment of depression and anxiety amongst older people

Burch, S., Preston, C., Bateup, S., Hina, F.

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2017

This article reports on the experience of internet-enabled cognitive behavioural therapy (IECBT) for older people diagnosed with depression and anxiety.

RCT: Psychotherapy for depression

Kessler, D., Lewis, G., Kaur, S., Wiles, N., King, M., Weich, S., ... & Peters, T. J.

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2009

In this multicentre, randomised controlled trial, ieso investigates the eﬀectiveness of CBT delivered online in real time by a therapist for patients with depression in primary care