Acceptability and experience of a smartphone symptom monitoring app for people with psychosis in China (YouXin): a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Access to high-quality mental healthcare remains challenging for people with psychosis globally, including China. Smartphone-based symptom monitoring has the potential to support scalable mental healthcare. However, no such tool, until now, has been developed and evaluated for people with psychosis in China. This study investigated the acceptability and the experience of using a symptom self-monitoring smartphone app (YouXin) specifically developed for people with psychosis in China.

Methods

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 participants with psychosis to explore the acceptability of YouXin. Participants were recruited from the non-randomised feasibility study that tested the validity, feasibility, acceptability and safety of the YouXin app. Data a

SUBMITTER: Zhang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11003104 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature