Informing mHealth and Web-Based Eating Disorder Interventions: Combining Lived Experience Perspectives With Design Thinking Approaches.

ABSTRACT:

Background

App-based interventions designed to prevent and treat eating disorders have considerable potential to overcome known barriers to treatment seeking. Existing apps have shown efficacy in terms of symptom reduction; however, uptake and retention issues are common. To ensure that apps meet the needs and preferences of those for whom they were designed, it is critical to understand the lived experience of potential users and involve them in the process of design, development, and delivery. However, few app-based interventions are pretested on and co-designed with end users before randomized controlled trials.

Objective

To address the issue, this study used a highly novel design thinking approach to provide the context and a lived experience perspective of the end user,

SUBMITTER: Jarman HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9664336 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature