Mobile Applications for stress management

Marina Anagnostou,Athanasios Drigas

doi:10.36560/15220221507

Abstract

Stress continues to be one of the challenging of responding in different situations. It evokes negative thoughts and feelings in a person. It is known that there are many ways to reduce stress, like counseling, training, exercise, e.t.c. Although, nowadays, through technology have developed different ways to face with it. There are many applications in smartphones and tablets, which are designed for stress management. These applications contain many and different techniques to reduce stress, such as meditation, mindfulness breathing, cognitive behavior therapy and relaxation techniques.

Highlights

Nowadays, stress is a growing problem, which affecting many people all over the world and in the most times has negative results (Carissoli, C.et al 2015)
Research concerned with technology and how it can help in stress reduction and as a result, many mental health applications have been developed for stress management (Carissoli, C.et al 2015)
Stress management is a wide spectrum of techniques aimed at controlling a person's level of stress, especially chronic stress, usually for the purpose of improving everyday functioning

Summary

Introduction

Stress is a growing problem, which affecting many people all over the world and in the most times has negative results (Carissoli, C.et al 2015). Research concerned with technology and how it can help in stress reduction and as a result, many mental health applications have been developed for stress management (Carissoli, C.et al 2015). Researches have shown that mobile applications are perceived as useful and can provide helpful information regarding to mental health problems. Mobile phone technology is growing in leaps and bounds, result in frequent app updates and the change of features and functions. This prospect will be able to evolve stress management by mobile applications and help many people in future, who suffer from stress(Wang, K et al, 2018)

Backround Stress management

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