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AI Chatbot for Pregnancy Anxiety: 300-Woman Study Shows Large Score Drop

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A 300-woman high-risk pregnancy study reported a striking before-after change after 4 weeks of daily Replika chatbot use: Pregnancy Anxiety and Stress Rating Scale scores fell from 54.05 to 10.15, p < 0.001.1 The result is a real signal for digital maternal support, but the no-control design makes it weak evidence that the chatbot itself …

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Digital Mental Health Visualizations: 6 Tools for Anxiety, Depression

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A 2026 participatory-design and case-study paper turned smartphone mental-health data into 6 clinician-facing visualizations for an 8-week anxiety/depression digital clinic, using feedback from 15 clinicians and 3 clinical supervisors. The useful claim is workflow-level: charts made passive sensing and symptom ratings discussable inside care, but the paper did not test whether the visualizations improved clinical …

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