The Role of Practitioner- and User-Set Goals in Engagement and Psychological Distress Among Kooth Digital Health Users: Retrospective Analysis
Jacqlyn Yourell, Jennifer Huberty, Terry Hanley, Louisa Salhi · 2025
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Jacqlyn Yourell, Jennifer Huberty, Terry Hanley, and Louisa Salhi study goal setting on a youth mental health platform in a study from two thousand twenty-five. The platform, Kooth, is free for United Kingdom users aged ten to twenty-five. Goals can be set by users alone or with a practitioner, and the two kinds may work differently.
The analysis covered six hundred ninety-one users who set goals and took distress measures before and after. More practitioner-set goals were tied to more platform engagement, while self-set goal counts were not. Progress on practitioner-set goals linked to reduced distress, but progress on self-set goals did not. The authors say joint goal work with a practitioner may carry special value.
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| CREATOR | Jacqlyn Yourell, Jennifer Huberty, Terry Hanley, Louisa Salhi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |