The importance of trusting conditions for organizations' readiness to implement mHealth to support healthy lifestyle behaviors: An interview study within Swedish child and school healthcare.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore perceptions among nurses, managers, and policymakers regarding organizational readiness to implement mHealth for the promotion of healthy lifestyle behaviors in child and school healthcare.

Methods

Individual semi-structured interviews with nurses (n = 10), managers (n = 10), and policymakers (n = 8) within child and school healthcare in Sweden. Inductive content analysis was used for data analysis.

Results

Data showed that various trust-building aspects in health care organizations may contribute to readiness to implement mHealth. Several aspects were perceived to contribute trusting conditions: (a) how health-related data could be stored and managed; (b) how mHealth aligned with current organizational ways of working; (c) ho

SUBMITTER: Fagerstrom M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10286530 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature