Research
Mental health app may help unemployed people find jobs, six-week trial suggests
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The Brief
- A Northwestern University-led clinical trial tested DRIVEN, a phone app for unemployed people with depression.
- The trial ran for six weeks and suggests the app may help users find jobs.
- The app combines mental health support with job-search assistance.
Why it matters
It offers early evidence that digital mental health tools may address depression as a barrier to re-employment, a link that is hard to study at scale.
Who’s affected
- people who are unemployed or experiencing depression
- researchers in occupational and mental health
- employment service providers
Losing a job can be a life-shattering experience. And when depression complicates a job search, unemployment can become a vicious cycle. Now, a Northwestern University–led clinical trial suggests a new intervention may break that cycle: a phone app, named DRIVEN, that combines…
Timeline
Results of the six-week trial reported by Science News and phys.org
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