Implementation Outcome Scales for Digital Mental Health (iOSDMH): Scale Development and Cross-sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital mental health interventions are being used more than ever for the prevention and treatment of psychological problems. Optimizing the implementation aspects of digital mental health is essential to deliver the program to populations in need, but there is a lack of validated implementation outcome measures for digital mental health interventions.

Objective

The primary aim of this study is to develop implementation outcome scales of digital mental health for different levels of stakeholders involved in the implementation process: users, providers, and managers or policy makers. The secondary aim is to validate the developed scale for users.

Methods

We developed English and Japanese versions of the implementation outcome scales for digital mental health

SUBMITTER: Sasaki N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8663479 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature