Professor Dean Ho, director of the Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM) at NUS Medicine and Dr Yeo Geck Hong, the study’s co-principal investigator, shared that the study found that digital peer support lowered depressive and anxiety symptoms by nearly 40 per cent, and its effect was sustained beyond the period of intervention for around six weeks.

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