Assessing Professionals' Adoption Readiness for eMental Health: Development and Validation of the eMental Health Adoption Readiness Scale.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The last few decades have witnessed significant advances in the development of digital tools and applications for mental health care. Despite growing evidence for their effectiveness, acceptance and use of these tools in clinical practice remain low. Hence, a validated and easy-to-use instrument for assessing professionals' readiness to adopt eMental health (EMH) is necessary to gain further insights into the process of EMH adoption and facilitate future research on this topic.

Objective

The aim of this study is to develop and validate an instrument for assessing mental health care professionals' readiness to adopt EMH.

Methods

Item generation was guided by literature and inputs from mental health care professionals and experts in survey development. Explor

SUBMITTER: Feijt MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8486999 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature