App helps family doctors track patients’ mental health
October 21, 2020
MONTREAL – A new app that tracks patients’ changing moods is about to be rolled out to help family doctors in CIUSSS West-Central Montreal provide better treatment for anxiety and depression. Tung Tran (pictured), director of the CIUSSS’s Mental Health and Addiction Program, says the app is aimed mainly at family physicians, who have often been called upon to treat climbing rates of anxiety and depression since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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