{"id":236739,"date":"2026-05-07T22:17:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/digital-therapy-outperforms-referrals-to-campus-clinics-among-college-students"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:17:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:17:47","slug":"digital-therapy-outperforms-referrals-to-campus-clinics-among-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/digital-therapy-outperforms-referrals-to-campus-clinics-among-college-students","title":{"rendered":"Digital therapy outperforms referrals to campus clinics among college students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/digital-therapy-outperforms-referrals-to-campus-clinics-among-college-students.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>College students with anxiety, depression and eating disorders may be more likely to start and to respond more positively to therapy offered via a digital app compared to referrals to in-person campus clinics, according to a study led by Penn State researchers and published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-026-02454-z\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Human Behaviour<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, an estimated 40% to 60% of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2022-04-mental-health-college-students-worse.html\">college students experience a mental health disorder<\/a> at some point, and the need for campus counseling services has increased faster than institutions\u2019 capacity to provide these services, according to the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The research team wanted to see if a proactive intervention using a digital therapy app could effectively treat anxiety disorders, depression and eating disorders, as well as address the increased need for psychological services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College students with anxiety, depression and eating disorders may be more likely to start and to respond more positively to therapy offered via a digital app compared to referrals to in-person campus clinics, according to a study led by Penn State researchers and published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. Globally, an estimated 40% to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}