Table 3 Recommendations for AI-informed mHealth apps in qualitative research by experts and young people

Recommendations by young people

 - App includes a variety of exercises and gives orientation

 - Personalized personalization–App includes users in AI decision making process

 - App gives recommendations when “it’s smart enough”

 - App suggests solutions for “difficult situations”

 - App suggests distance to mobile phone

 - Mutual trainings or sharing trainings with others rarely desired

 - Reasonable time requirements for app usage

Recommendations by experts

 - Inclusion of young people into app development

 - Target group–specific language

 - Forwarding young people to counseling centers

 - Low–threshold access to potentially endangered young people

 - Careful framing of AI technology