Social Representations of e-Mental Health Among the Actors of the Health Care System: Free-Association Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Electronic mental (e-mental) health offers an opportunity to overcome many challenges such as cost, accessibility, and the stigma associated with mental health, and most people with lived experiences of mental problems are in favor of using applications and websites to manage their mental health problems. However, the use of these new technologies remains weak in the area of mental health and psychiatry.

Objective

This study aimed to characterize the social representations associated with e-mental health by all actors to implement new technologies in the best possible way in the health system.

Methods

A free-association task method was used. The data were subjected to a lexicometric analysis to qualify and quantify words by analyzing their statistical distr

SUBMITTER: Morgieve M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8193480 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature