Health professionals' perspective on the promotion of e-mental health apps in the context of maternal depression.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Our study focuses on exploring (1) the intention of health professionals to use and recommend e-mental health applications, (2) how this intention of health professionals might be influenced, (3) which group of health professionals might be most accessible to promote e-mental health applications for maternal depression, and (4) for which tasks they rate them to be most useful.

Materials and methods

Based on a questionnaire informed by the theory of planned behavior, we collected 131 responses of U.S., Spanish, and Swiss health professionals in the field of pregnancy and maternal care (including psychologists, psychiatrists, midwives, and doctors) by means of an online survey. We analyzed the gathered data applying a structured equation model.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Sprenger M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5507525 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature