Guidance on e-health interventions for practitioners and researchers
The paper aims to provide guidance on best practice when preventing or improving the state of mental illness using e-mental health interventions.
Recommendations from the paper
Identify the target group based on age, gender, cultural background, delivery context, and delivery format, and engage with them effectively .
Conduct appropriate stakeholder engagement with all parties involved in the delivery, dissemination, and implementation of the intervention, as well as the end users .
Consider the usual consumer behaviour of the target group, such as the types of health apps used, frequency of use, and appealing features.
Make decisions about data flow, storage, access, and transparency, and clearly define the procedure to ensure participants' trust in academic e-mental health research .
Implement risk management strategies and dropout prevention measures.
Choose an adequate time frame for questions in assessments, considering the minimisation of retrospective bias and enhancement of representativity.
Source
Seiferth, C., et. al. (2023) “How to e-mental health: a guideline for researchers and practitioners using digital technology in the context of mental health” https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-023-00085-1
