BACKGROUND: Over the past 25 years, the development of multiuser applications has seen considerable advancements and challenges. The technological development in this field has emerged from simple chat rooms through videoconferencing tools to the creation of complex, interactive, and often multisensory virtual worlds. These multiuser technologies have gradually found their way into mental health care, where they are used in both dyadic counseling and group interventions. However, some limitations in hardware capabilities, user experience designs, and scalability may have hindered the effectiveness of these applications. OBJECTIVE: This systematic review aims at summarizing the progress made and the potential future directions in this field while evaluating various factors and perspectives relevant to remote multiuser interventions. METHODS: The systematic review was performed based on a Web of Science and PubMed database search covering articles in English, published from January 1999 to March 2024, related to multiuser mental health interventions. Several inclusion and exclusion criteria were determined before and during the records screening process, which was performed in several steps. RESULTS: We identified 49 records exploring multiuser applications in mental health care, ranging from text-based interventions to interventions set in fully immersive environments. The number of publications exploring this topic has been growing since 2015, with a large increase during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most digital interventions were delivered in the form of videoconferencing, with only a few implementing immersive environments. The studies used professional or peer-supported group interventions or a combination of both approaches. The research studies targeted diverse groups and topics, from nursing mothers to psychiatric disorders or various minority groups. Most group sessions occurred weekly, or in the case of the peer-support groups, often with a flexible schedule. CONCLUSIONS: We identified many benefits to multiuser digital interventions for mental health care. These approaches provide distributed, always available, and affordable peer support that can be used to deliver necessary help to people living outside of areas where in-person interventions are easily available. While immersive virtual environments have become a common tool in many areas of psychiatric care, such as exposure therapy, our results suggest that this technology in multiuser settings is still in its early stages. Most identified studies investigated mainstream technologies, such as videoconferencing or text-based support, substituting the immersive experience for convenience and ease of use. While many studies discuss useful features of virtual environments in group interventions, such as anonymity or stronger engagement with the group, we discuss persisting issues with these technologies, which currently prevent their full adoption.
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- duševní poruchy terapie MeSH
- duševní zdraví MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- služby péče o duševní zdraví * MeSH
- telemedicína MeSH
- videokonferování MeSH
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- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- přehledy MeSH
- systematický přehled MeSH
Uplynulých 20 let je obdobímvýznamných změn ve vědě a medicíně. Jedna z těchto změn je i etiopatogeneze vředové choroby žaludku, která prodělala řadu proměn. Ačkoliv bylo v teorii i v klinické praxi zaznamenáno velké množství poznatků a zkušeností ohledně infekce Helicobacter pylori (Hp), naše znalosti o podrobné úloze a patogenezi Hp ve vztahu k chorobám žaludku a duodena zůstávají nadále neúplné.
The last twenty years have been the witness of the major revolution in the medical science and practice. Pathogenesis of gastric ulcer disease has probably undergone the most serious change both in the conception and in practice. Though the number of information concerning Helicobacter pylori (Hp) is rising explosively, our understanding of the specific and detailed role of Hp infection in the pathogenesis of various Hp related diseases remains modest.
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- dvanáctníkové vředy etiologie patofyziologie MeSH
- gastrointestinální endoskopie metody využití MeSH
- Helicobacter pylori izolace a purifikace patogenita MeSH
- infekce vyvolané Helicobacter pylori diagnóza komplikace MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- nádory žaludku etiologie patofyziologie MeSH
- sérologické testy metody využití MeSH
- žaludeční vředy etiologie patofyziologie MeSH
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- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- přehledy MeSH
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- antibakteriální látky aplikace a dávkování terapeutické užití MeSH
- Helicobacter pylori patogenita MeSH
- infekce vyvolané Helicobacter pylori farmakoterapie MeSH
- kombinovaná farmakoterapie MeSH
- nemoci duodena diagnóza farmakoterapie MeSH
- nemoci žaludku diagnóza farmakoterapie MeSH
- Publikační typ
- přehledy MeSH
- směrnice pro lékařskou praxi MeSH
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- anamnéza MeSH
- familiární adenomatózní polypóza MeSH
- kolonoskopie MeSH
- kolorektální nádory * diagnóza prevence a kontrola MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- okultní krev MeSH
- plošný screening * MeSH
- polypy střeva MeSH
- rentgendiagnostika metody MeSH
- riziko * MeSH
- sigmoidoskopie MeSH
- směrnice pro lékařskou praxi jako téma MeSH
- ulcerózní kolitida MeSH
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- lidé MeSH
