REVIEW article
Front. Digit. Health
Sec. Digital Mental Health
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2025.1670691
This article is part of the Research TopiceHealth and Personalized Medicine in Mental Health and Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Digital Innovation for Diagnosis, Care, and Clinical ManagementView all 4 articles
A Literature Review of Remote Mental Health Screening: Barriers, Potential Solutions, and Tools
Provisionally accepted
Nicole Louise Quiram1*
Tamjid Salam2
Fatima Sadjadpour1Niyousha Hosseinichimeh1Lenore Jarvis3
Lamia Soghier3- 1Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Blacksburg, United States
- 2University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, United States
- 3Children's National Hospital, Washington, United States
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Abstract Remote Measurement Technologies (RMTs) have the potential to become widely used tools for monitoring and treating mental health. However, their adoption faces multiple barriers. We conducted a focused literature review to identify commonly used devices and assessment surveys, synthesize barriers to their use, and explore proposed solutions. Our review highlighted several challenges in implementing RMTs, including technological limitations, user-related factors, legal and ethical concerns, research constraints, and difficulties integrating these technologies into clinical practice. While studies have examined barriers through user interviews, empirical analyses of success factors remain limited, highlighting a need for further research in this area.
Keywords: Remote measurement technologies (RMTs), barriers of implementing RMTs, solutions to enhance use of RMTs, Assessment surveys, Mental Health
Received: 22 Jul 2025; Accepted: 26 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Quiram, Salam, Sadjadpour, Hosseinichimeh, Jarvis and Soghier. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Nicole Louise Quiram, nquiram@vt.edu
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