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PsyberGuide : a review site for mental health apps

• The most widely used rating system for mental health apps is the Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS), which provides an objective, multidimensional rating of health app quality and usability (Stoyanov et al., 2015).

• y. Privacy and security is a foremost concern of clinicians and end users for mental health apps (Dennison, Morrison, Conway, & Yardley, 2013; Schueller et al., 2016).

• Unsupported apps are less costly than supported or blended options with fewer access barriers (e.g., setting up a time to chat with a provider), but have also been found to be less effective than those with some form of human involvement (Schueller, Tomasino, Mohr, 2017), which often introduces an element of accountability. S