NIH R01 · 2025
Optimizing an automated chatbot to achieve efficient, scalable treatment for eating disorders
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Eating disorders (EDs) are common, disabling, and costly, yet less than 20% of those with EDs ever receive treatment. As such, our team established a coached app for EDs. Though coached apps are lower cost relative to therapy, they come with significant implementation barriers given the need for human support. One solution is to program chatbots that mimic aspects of human coaching. Still, it is recognized that engagement with digital mental health interventions can be challenging, making it important that an ED treatment chatbot be efficient, ideally with the most effective components delivered first. To date though, little is known about which components are most…
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