Developing a smartphone App based on the Unified Protocol for the transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders: A qualitative analysis of users and professionals' perspectives

Osma, J (通讯作者),Univ Zaragoza, Fac Social & Human Sci, Dept Psicol & Sociol, C Atarazanas 4, Teruel 44003, Spain.
2022-12
Emotional Disorders have become the most prevalent mental disorders in the world. In relation to their high prevalence, mental health care from public health services faces major challenges. Consequently, finding solu-tions to deliver cost-effective evidence-based treatments has become a main goal of today's clinical psychology. Smartphone apps for mental health have emerged as a potential tool to deal with it. However, despite their effectiveness and advantages, several studies suggest the need to involve patients and professionals in the design of these apps from the first stage of the development process. Thus, this study aimed to identify, from both a group of users and professionals, the needs, opinions, expectations and design aspects of a future smartphone app based in the Unified Protocol (UP), that will allow to develop the subsequent technical work of the app engineers. Two focus groups were conducted, one with 7 professionals and the other with 9 users, both groups familiar with the UP. A thematic content analysis based in grounded theory was performed in order to define emergent cat-egories of analysis derived from the interview data. The results revealed 8 common topics in both focus groups and 5 specific key topics were identified in the professionals' focus group. Of the total proposals, 93 % of the professionals' and 78 % of the users' are implemented in the preliminary version of the app.
INTERNET INTERVENTIONS-THE APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN MENTAL AND BEHAVIOURAL HEALTH
卷号:30
收录类别:SCIE
语种
英语
来源机构
University of Zaragoza; Miguel Servet University Hospital; Universitat Jaume I
资助信息
Funding for this study was provided by the Ministerio de Industria, Economia y competitividad ISCIII (PI20/00697) and co-funded by the ISCIII-Subdireccion General de Evaluacion y Fomento de la Investigacion del Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER). Otra manera de hacer Europa. The research was co-funded by Gobierno de Aragon and FEDER 2014-2020 Construyendo Europa desde Aragon (S31_20D). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
被引频次(WOS)
0
被引频次(其他)
0
180天使用计数
3
2013以来使用计数
3
EISSN
2214-7829
出版年
2022-12
DOI
10.1016/j.invent.2022.100577
学科领域
循证公共卫生
关键词
Unified protocol Emotional disorders Smartphone app Thematic content analysis Qualitative methods m-Health
资助机构
Ministerio de Industria, Economia y competitividad ISCIII ISCIII-Subdireccion General de Evaluacion y Fomento de la Investigacion del Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER). Otra manera de hacer Europa Gobierno de Aragon(Gobierno de Aragon) FEDER 2014-2020 Construyendo Europa desde Aragon
WOS学科分类
Psychology, Clinical Health Care Sciences & Services Medical Informatics Psychiatry