The high incidence of chronic diseases and the increasing medical burden have come to be great challenges for contemporary medicine. The way of merging digital technology and traditional medicine will become a new means of solving these problems. For the patients and medical institutions, digital therapeutics can lower treatment cost and promote a change of patients’ lifestyle, and it is the supplementation or even substitution for traditional treatment methods. This article analyzes the origin and development of digital therapeutics and the application of digital therapeutics in the field of mental health so as to help the public make sense of digital therapeutics; introduces relevant design cases from the Design Management Institute of the School of Design of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, assisting to promote the development of digital therapeutics in the field of mental health in China.
ZHANG Chenqi
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HAN Ting
. Design in Assisting the Development of Digital Therapeutics in Mental Health[J]. Psychological Communications, 2022
, 5(1)
: 14
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DOI: 10.12100/j.issn.2096-5494.222005
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