Spanish media outlets have recently covered the launch of the MENTINA App, developed as part of the MENTBEST project. The MENTINA app was developed to help people with depression manage their symptoms between clinical appointments. It uses evidence-based knowledge to answer their questions and offer solutions.
As more people turn to AI tools to manage their mental health, MENTINA offers a clinically validated alternative: it has been developed by expert psychologists and psychiatrists and provides personalised recommendations based on evidence rather than AI-generated solutions.
RAC1 – Radio Coverage on the mental health app that aims to be your day-to-day support system
Summary: The Catalan radio station RAC1 covered the launch of MENTINA within its programming, highlighting the app’s development by the Hospital del Mar Research Institute as part of the MENTBEST project and its role as a clinically validated alternative to AI-based mental health tools. READ MORE »
La Razón – The only mental health app seeking certification as a medical device
Summary: This in-depth piece focuses on how the app provides personalized daily monitoring for people with depression through specific questions about physical and mental health, sleep and activity. The article highlights how a machine learning algorithm identifies individual patterns to offer tailored recommendations and detect potential relapse risk. READ MORE »
IMMédicoHospitalario – A European App testing a new way to get ahead of depression
Summary: The article emphasizes how MENTINA goes beyond simple symptom monitoring to offer daily activity tracking and personalized recommendations. It includes the quotes of prominent experts, including Dr Bridget Hogg, coordinator of the MENTBEST Project. READ MORE »
Betevé – Developing a mental health app to prevent AI consultations
Summary: The article focuses on the launch of MENTINA, led by the Hospital del Mar Research Institute, as a clinically grounded alternative to AI-based mental health tools. The piece features a quote from Dr Bridget Hogg, explaining how the app monitors daily activity through specific questions. It also covers the ongoing multicentre clinical trial with 660 volunteers across Europe running until the end of 2027. READ MORE »
El Nacional – Hospital del Mar Research Institute leads a mental health app Project as an alternative to AI
Summary: This piece focuses on the risks of using generative AI to manage mental health conditions and how the MENTINA app aims to provide an alternative by providing information that is evidence-based. READ MORE »
Infobae – Launching a mental health app with expert information to compete with AI
Summary: The article mentions how the launch of MENTINA, the first one looking for medical certification, offers evidence-based mental health support developed by expert psychologists and psychiatrists as an alternative to AI tools, which the Hospital del Mar Research Institute warns can reinforce dysfunctional thought patterns. READ MORE »
Heraldo de Aragón – Launching a mental health app to compete with AI
Summary: This feature highlights how Hospital del Mar Research Institute has warned about the growing use of AI tools to support people’s mental health, including the reinforcement of dysfunctional thought patterns. READ MORE »
Diario Siglo XXI – Self-evaluation and self-awareness mechanisms, key tools for depression prevention
Summary: Diario Siglo XXI highlighted MENTINA’s confidentiality features and its self-evaluation and self-awareness mechanisms as key tools for depression prevention, framing the app as a trustworthy resource that complements rather than replaces professional care. READ MORE »
Lleidadiari – Identifying behavioural patterns through daily habits and lifestyle
Summary: Lleidadiari focused on MENTINA’s ability to identify behavioural patterns through daily questions about mood and lifestyle habits, going beyond simple symptom tracking. The piece also quotes co-creator Albert Gil, who describes the app as “a pocket companion to face difficult moments and learn more about depression.” READ MORE »
La Ciutat – Seeking the certification to become a medical device
Summary: The media outlet highlighted MENTINA’s certification process as a medical device and its strict eligibility criteria for the clinical trial, noting the app is designed to complement rather than replace professional treatment. READ MORE »
ISanidad – The Mentina app complies with strict ethical and clinical standards
Summary: Isanidad covered the launch of MENTINA, emphasising the role of the German Foundation for Depression and Suicide Prevention as a key partner in the initiative alongside MENTBEST, and noting the app’s strict ethical and clinical standards as part of its medical device certification process. READ MORE »
Telecinco – “A pocket companion to face difficult moments”
Summary: Telecinco covered the launch of Mentina, highlighting the app’s daily monitoring approach and its development by expert psychologists and psychiatrists as a clinically validated alternative to AI tools. The piece notes the app is currently seeking medical device certification and is recruiting volunteers for its European clinical trial. READ MORE »
Catalunya Ràdio – Mentina, the App to combat depression and avoid AI consultations
Summary: Catalunya Ràdio broadcast a piece on Mentina, focusing on how the app provides evidence-based mental health support as a reliable alternative to AI consultations. The audio report, by Anna Bañeres, highlights the app’s daily activity monitoring features and its ongoing process to obtain medical device certification through a clinical trial currently recruiting volunteers. READ MORE »