Implementation of a Self-help Mobile Mental Health App in COVID-19 Frontline Health Care Workers: A Quality Improvement Project

Overview

Journal Arch Psychiatr Nurs

Specialties Nursing
Psychiatry

Date 2023 Dec 9

PMID 38070993

Authors

Elizabeth K DeVylder

Karen L Breda

Robert H Pietrzak

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Abstract

Aim: Frontline health care workers (FHCWs) have endured a range of adverse mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the widespread availability and ease-of-use of self-help mobile mental health apps, little is known about the feasibility of implementing such tools among COVID-19 FHCWs in real-world nursing settings.

Methods: This quality improvement project evaluated the feasibility of implementing the COVID Coach app among COVID-19 FHCWs in a skilled nursing facility.

Results: Participants endorsed high average ratings of the acceptability, appropriateness, feasibility, knowledge, perceived usefulness of the app.

Discussion: Implications for the broader dissemination of mobile self-help apps are discussed.

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