Sustained engagement with a digital youth mental health platform: A mixed-methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital mental health interventions offer a scalable means of expanding access to youth mental health care. However, their capacity to achieve population-level impact is limited by persistently low and varied user engagement. A more nuanced understanding of experiential factors associated with sustained engagement is needed to inform the design of digital interventions that are both clinically effective and engaging to young people.

Objective

To identify experiential factors associated with sustained engagement with a large-scale, real-world digital youth mental health platform implemented across Australian youth mental health services.

Methods

A convergent mixed-methods approach integrated platform usage data and qualitative interviews with young people ag

SUBMITTER: Valentine L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12811672 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature