How E-Mental Health Services Benefit University Students with ADHD: A literature Review

E-mental health is an area within e-health in which the key role of IS/IT has not been well established. Both clinicians and scholars are uncertain as to the role of IS/IT and its potential benefits. This research review is introduced to assist in understanding the enabling role in e-mental health and it focused on one area of mental health, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in university students. ADHD is estimated to affect approximately 6% of university students by negatively impacting students' academic performance and social life; hence, fewer of these students complete their degrees as compared to their peers. This review outlines the potentials of using IS/IT in the treatment of ADHD in university students. It also serves to greatly contribute to e-mental health development and thereby to help to uncover further possibilities of IT/IT to support broad areas within mental health disorders and services.Comment: Research-in-progress ISBN# 978-0-646-95337-3 Presented at the Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2015 (arXiv:1605.01032

The Effect of e-Mental Health Services on Saudi General Mental Health

Mental Health is a state of wellbeing that plays a key role in affecting the quality of life of an individual. However, globally the level of treatment and focus it receives in terms of funding and priority as a healthcare issue differs significantly. More recently mental health in Saudi Arabia has begun to receive better attention from authorities and researchers. In particular, e-mental health services and solutions are growing rapidly and are showing promise to facilitate mental health services and delivery by providing better access, and early intervention and treatment for people with mental illness. This study has been designed to assist the current mental health services in Saudi Arabia and focuses on e-mental health, which is both timely and important. In the last decade Australia has become one of the leading countries in providing e-mental health services. The research-in-progress outlined in this paper introduces possibilities and challenges in transforming the e-mental health services of Australia to the Saudi Arabian healthcare context