Adapting and Implementing Apps for Mental Healthcare

Overview

Journal Curr Psychiatry Rep

Publisher Current Science

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2022 Jul 14

PMID 35835898

Authors

Jurgen Zielasek

Isabelle Reinhardt

Laura Schmidt

Euphrosyne Gouzoulis-Mayfrank

Affiliations

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Abstract

Purpose Of Review: To describe examples of adapting apps for use in mental healthcare and to formulate recommendations for successful adaptation in mental healthcare settings.

Recent Findings: International examples are given to explore implementation procedures to address this multitude of challenges. There are only few published examples of adapting apps for use in mental healthcare. From these examples and from results of studies in implementation science in general clinical settings, it can be concluded that the process of adapting apps for mental healthcare needs to address clinician training and information needs, user needs which include cultural adaptation and go beyond mere translation, and organizational needs for blending app use into everyday clinical mental healthcare workflows.

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