Incorporating Data From Text Messages and Email Into Psychotherapy: Randomized Controlled Trial

As digital communication becomes central to daily life, psychotherapy increasingly has access to patients' electronic media data. Although digital phenotyping has been widely studied, less is known about whether incorporating personal communication data, such as text messages, improves clinical outcomes in psychotherapy.

This study aimed to determine whether integrating personalized text message data into psychotherapy improves depression, anxiety, health-related quality of life, and therapeutic alliance and to examine whether increased access to collateral information influences clinical decision-making.