Defining and Measuring Engagement and Adherence in Digital Mental Health Interventions: Protocol for an Umbrella Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) offer scalable solutions to address mental health needs, particularly among marginalized populations. However, engagement and adherence rates in DMHIs are often suboptimal, limiting their potential impact. Despite the growing body of literature on DMHI engagement, there is no consensus on how engagement and adherence are defined and measured across studies. Understanding these variations is crucial to improving DMHI design, evaluation, and outcomes.

Objective

Using the population, concept, context framework to frame the objectives, this umbrella review aims to synthesize existing systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and scoping reviews to identify how engagement and adherence are defined and measured in DMHIs. Additionally

SUBMITTER: Yap LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12340454 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature