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Name of mobile application
Pacifica.
Category of the mobile application
Mental health.
Platform
Apple (iOS V.6.0 or later); Android (V.4.0 and up).
Cost
Free version with limited features, full version $3.99 monthly subscription fee after 7-day trial period or $29.99 yearly subscription fee.
About the app
Pacifica is a mobile application that is designed to target stress, anxiety and depression through cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness and relaxation approaches. Pacifica tracks daily use and goal achievement. When logging in for the first time, and the first time each day, the app inquires how the user feels and why he or she may express that mood (figure 1). From the home screen, users are able to choose four different activities: relaxation, meditation, goal setting and recording thoughts. Each activity has further subcategories; relaxation and mediation are functional, …
Footnotes
Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.