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Digital Drawing Tools for Assessing Mental Health Conditions: A Scoping Review
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Autoren
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Sebastian Unger
- Universität Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany
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Thomas Ostermann
- Universität Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany
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Laura Anderle
- Westfälische Hochschule, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
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Sibylle Robens
| Veröffentlicht: | 6. September 2024 |
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Objective: Drawing tasks are an elementary component of psychological assessment in the evaluation of mental health. With the rise of digitalization not only in psychology but healthcare in general, digital drawing tools (dDTs) have also been developed for this purpose. This scoping review aims at summarizing the state of the art of dDTs available to assess mental health conditions in people above preschool age.
Methods: PubMed, PsycInfo, PsycArticles, CINAHL, and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection were searched for dDTs from 2000 onwards. The focus was on dDTs, which not only evaluates the final drawing, but also processes data.
Results: After applying the search and selection strategy, a total of 37 articles, comprising unique dDTs, remained for data extraction. Around 75 % of these articles were published after 2014 and most of them target adults (86.5 %). In addition, dDTs were mainly used in two areas: tremor detection and assessment of cognitive states, utilizing, for example, the Spiral Drawing Test and the Clock Drawing Test.
Conclusion: Early detection of mental diseases is an increasingly important field in healthcare. Through the integration of digital and art-based solutions, this area could expand into an interdisciplinary science. This review shows that the first steps in this direction have already been taken and that the possibilities for further research, e.g., on the optimized application of dDTs, are still open.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
The authors declare that an ethics committee vote is not required.
