ArticleJMIR mental health2018
Early Psychosis Service User Views on Digital Technology: Qualitative Analysis.
Article in JMIR mental health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
45 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 87 citations in OpenAlex.
- Barriers and facilitators to engagement in psychological therapy in first episode psychosis: A meta-ethnography and qualitative comparative analysis.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2025Pooled it
- Barriers and Facilitators of User Engagement With Digital Mental Health Interventions for People With Psychosis or Bipolar Disorder: Systematic Review and Best-Fit Framework Synthesis.JMIR mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of digital technologies in mental health systems: a qualitative systematic review to inform a policy framework.BMC health services research · 2024Pooled it
- Efficacy of technology-based interventions in psychosis: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Psychological medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Mobile health in the specific management of first-episode psychosis: a systematic literature review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- "It's like having a friend in your pocket." the service user experience of the Actissist digital health intervention for early psychosis: a qualitative study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Early psychosis service user views on digital remote monitoring: a qualitative study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Using EMPOWER in daily life: a qualitative investigation of implementation experiences.BMC psychiatry · 2023Trial
- The service user experience of SlowMo therapy: A co-produced thematic analysis of service users' subjective experience.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2022Trial
- Digital smartphone intervention to recognise and manage early warning signs in schizophrenia to prevent relapse: the EMPOWER feasibility cluster RCT.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2022Trial
- A remote and avatar-based approach for social cognitive impairments in psychotic disorders: A Canadian adaptation of RC2S.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2026Article
- Mental Health Professionals' Perspectives on Digital Remote Monitoring in Services for People with Psychosis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Article
- A Digital Mental Health Intervention for Paranoia (the STOP App): Qualitative Study on User Acceptability.JMIR human factors · 2025Article
- How do users of a mental health app conceptualise digital therapeutic alliance? A qualitative study using the framework approach.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Digital Assessment of Wellbeing in New Parents (DAWN-P): protocol of a randomised feasibility trial comparing digital screening for maternal postnatal depression with usual care screening.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2025Article
- How theories, models, and frameworks have been used to implement digital health interventions in services for people with severe mental health problems: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Exploring the acceptability of remote care for people with psychotic disorders in the community: practical challenges and desired features.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Healthcare Professionals' Views on the Use of Passive Sensing and Machine Learning Approaches in Secondary Mental Healthcare: A Qualitative Study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Acceptability and experience of a smartphone symptom monitoring app for people with psychosis in China (YouXin): a qualitative study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Eliciting perspectives on remote healthcare delivery from service users with psychosis in the community: a cross-sectional survey study.Frontiers in digital health · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundDigital technology has the potential to improve outcomes for people with psychosis. However, to date, research has largely ignored service user views on digital health interventions (DHIs).
objectiveThe objective of our study was to explore early psychosis service users' subjective views on DHIs.
methodsFramework analysis was undertaken with data obtained from 21 semistructured interviews with people registered with early intervention for psychosis services. Robust measures were used to develop a stable framework, including member checking, triangulation, independent verification of themes, and consensus meetings.
resultsThe following 4 themes were established a priori: acceptability of technology in psychosis and mental health; technology increasing access to and augmenting mental health support; barriers to adopting DHIs; and concerns about management of data protection, privacy, risk, and security of information. The following 2 themes were generated a posteriori: blending DHIs with face-to-face treatment and empowerment, control, and choice. DHIs were also viewed as potentially destigmatizing, overcoming barriers faced in traditional service settings, facilitating communication, and empowering service users to take active control of their health care.
conclusionsIn the first study of its kind, early psychosis service users' were largely positive about the potential use of DHIs supporting and managing mental health. Overall, service users felt that DHIs were a progressive, modern, and relevant platform for health care delivery. Concerns were expressed around privacy and data security and practical barriers inherent within DHIs, all of which require further attention. Future research should explore whether findings transfer to other service user groups, other technology delivery formats, and across a range of treatment modalities.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.