Fantastic perspectives and where to find them: involving patients and citizens in digital health research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital contact tracing and exposure notification apps have quickly emerged as a potential solution to achieve timely and effective contact tracing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Nonetheless, their actual uptake remains limited. Citizens, including patients, are rarely consulted and included in the design and implementation process. Their contribution supports the acceptability of such apps, by providing upstream evidence on incentives and potential barriers that are most relevant to users. The DIGICIT (DIGITal CITizenship) project relied on patient and citizen partnership in research to better integrate public perspectives on these apps. In this paper, we present the co-construction process that led to the survey instrument used in the DIGICIT project and the interpretation

SUBMITTER: Osmanlliu E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9343826 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature