Barriers and Facilitators to the Adoption of Mobile Health Among Health Care Professionals From the United Kingdom: Discrete Choice Experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the increasing availability of mobile health services, clinical engagement remains minimal.

Objective

This study aims to identify and weight barriers to and drivers of health app use among health care professionals (HCPs) from the United Kingdom.

Methods

A discrete choice experiment was conducted with 222 HCPs using a web-based survey between March 2019 and June 2019. Participants were recruited to take part via social media and asked to choose their preferred option of 2 hypothetical health apps to prescribe to a hypothetical patient or to prescribe neither. Choices were characterized by differing levels of patient age, cost, published evidence bases, whether they had a National Health Service (NHS) stamp of approval, personal familiarity with the

SUBMITTER: Leigh S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7381009 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature