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Although digital phenotyping has been widely studied, less is known about whether incorporating personal communication data, such as text messages, improves clinical outcomes in psychotherapy.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n This study aimed to determine whether integrating personalized text message data into psychotherapy improves depression, anxiety, health-related quality of life, and therapeutic alliance and to examine whether increased access to collateral information influences clinical decision-making.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n The Electronic Media and its Impact on Psychotherapy (EMAP) study was a randomized controlled trial conducted in adult and geriatric outpatient and partial hospitalization settings at an academic psychiatric hospital. Participants receiving psychotherapy for primary depression or anxiety (n=101) were randomized to electronic media\u2013enhanced therapy (EME; n=52) or treatment as usual (TAU; n=49). In EME, research staff reviewed participants\u2019 text messages prior to sessions using personalized mood-related key terms and presented aggregated findings on a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)\u2013compliant clinician dashboard. TAU participants received standard care without message review. Outcomes included change scores for the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7), the 36-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), and the Working Alliance Inventory\u2013Short Revised (WAI-SR). Linear regression and nonparametric tests compared groups. Moderation analyses assessed whether the frequency of information access influenced treatment changes.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n No statistically significant between-group differences were observed in anxiety or working alliance. Among participants with SF-36 follow-up data (n=65), EME participants demonstrated greater improvement in the pain subscale. Greater frequency of information access was associated with increased treatment-related changes in the EME group. Access to additional collateral information was associated with more clinical actions but not with improved distal outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n Integrating personalized text message data into short-term psychotherapy did not significantly improve depression or anxiety, and it neither improved nor worsened therapeutic alliance. 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