Development and delivery cost of digital health technologies for mental health: Application to the Narrative Experiences Online Intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The increasing development and use of digital health interventions requires good quality costing information to inform development and commissioning choices about resource allocation decisions. The Narrative Experiences Online (NEON) Intervention is a web-application that delivers recorded mental health recovery narratives to its users. Two randomized controlled trials are testing the NEON Intervention in people with experience of psychosis (NEON) and people experiencing non-psychosis mental health problems (NEON-O).

Aim

This study describes and estimates the cost components and total cost of developing and delivering the NEON Intervention.

Materials and methods

Total costs for the NEON Trial (739 participants) and NEON-O Trial (1,024 participants) were est

SUBMITTER: Paterson L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9676659 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature