Developing personas to inform the design of digital interventions for perinatal mental health.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Digital interventions are increasingly in demand to address mental health concerns, with significant potential to reach populations that disproportionately face barriers to accessing mental health care. Challenges with user engagement, however, persist. The goal of this study was to develop user personas to inform the development of a digital mental health intervention (DMHI) for a perinatal population.

Materials and methods

We used participatory User-Centered Design (UCD) methods to generate and validate personas (ie, representative profiles of potential users). We applied this methodology to a case example of an Anxiety Sensitivity Intervention. Phases included (1) Characteristic identification, (2) Persona generation, (3) Persona consolidation, (4) Persona vali

SUBMITTER: Zimmermann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11528508 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature