Co-designing a digital mental health platform, "Momentum", with young people aged 7-17: A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) offer a promising alternative or adjunct treatment method to face-to-face treatment, overcoming barriers associated with stigma, access, and cost. This project is embedded in user experience and co-design to enhance the potential acceptability, usability and integration of digital platforms into youth mental health services.

Objective

To co-design a digital mental health platform that provides self-directed, tailored, and modularised treatment for young people aged 7-17 years experiencing anxiety, depression and other related problems.

Methods

Sixty-eight participants, aged 7-17 years, engaged in one of 20 co-design workshops. Eight workshops involved children (n  =  26, m  =  9.42 years, sd  =  1.27) and 12 inv

SUBMITTER: Ludlow K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10685776 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature