Participatory Methods to Engage Health Service Users in the Development of Electronic Health Resources: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

When health service providers (HSP) plan to develop electronic health (eHealth) resources for health service users (HSU), the latter's involvement is essential. Typically, however, HSP, HSU, and technology developers engaged to produce the resources lack expertise in participatory design methodologies suited to the eHealth context. Furthermore, it can be difficult to identify an established method to use, or determine how to work stepwise through any particular process.

Objective

We sought to summarize the evidence about participatory methods and frameworks used to engage HSU in the development of eHealth resources from the beginning of the design process.

Methods

We searched for studies reporting participatory processes in initial development of eHealth re

SUBMITTER: Moore G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7434099 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature