Considerations for evaluating digital mental health tools remotely- reflections after a randomized trial of Thought Spot

Affiliations

• ¹ Office of Education, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Information Management Group, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; UHN Digital, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• ² Office of Education, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Faculty of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• ³ Office of Education, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.
• ⁴ Office of Education, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.
• ⁵ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth & Family Mental Health, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Cundill Centre for Child and Youth Depression, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.
• ⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth & Family Mental Health, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• ⁷ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Health and Wellness, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• ⁸ Health and Wellness, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• ⁹ Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.
• ¹⁰ Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• ¹¹ Office of Education, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; UHN Digital, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Electronic address: [email protected].