ArticleBJPsych open2020
Unlocking the potential for digital mental health technologies in the UK: a Delphi exercise.
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- Human-Centered Design and Digital Transformation of Mental Health Services.JMIR human factors · 2025Review
- Essential Design Principles for a Family Digital Mental Health Intervention: A Delphi Study.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2025Article
- Experts' views on the implementation of digital interventions for eating disorders: a Delphi study.BMC public health · 2024Article
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- Clinical Perspectives on Using Remote Measurement Technology in Assessing Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, and Depression: Delphi Study.JMIR neurotechnology · 2023Article
- Co-Produce, Co-Design, Co-Create, or Co-Construct-Who Does It and How Is It Done in Chronic Disease Prevention? A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Ensuring patient and public involvement in the transition to AI-assisted mental health care: A systematic scoping review and agenda for design justice.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2021Article
- Co-development of a Best Practice Checklist for Mental Health Data Science: A Delphi Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Developing a Theory-Informed Smartphone App for Early Psychosis: Learning Points From a Multidisciplinary Collaboration.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundDigitally enabled services can contribute to the support, treatment and prevention of mental health difficulties; however, questions remain regarding how we can most usefully harness such technology in primary and secondary mental healthcare settings.
aimsTo identify barriers and facilitators to enable the potential of digital mental health in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
methodA three-round Delphi exercise was carried out online with 16 participants from across the four nations of the UK representing the following stakeholder groups: service providers, health professionals, policymakers, lived experience, small and medium enterprises and academics. Qualitative data were collected in the first round (80 fragments) that were then coded to produce a 26-item round-two questionnaire for participant rating. Participants were given the opportunity to reconsider their scores in light of the group responses in round three.
resultsEight statements under the following five themes reached consensus with median scores between 8 and 10 (i.e. important/very important): co-production; the human element; data security; funding; and regulation.
conclusionsThe Delphi process allowed consensus to be achieved regarding the factors that experts consider important for harnessing technology in primary and secondary mental healthcare. Knowledge of these factors can help users and providers of mental health services negotiate how best to move forward with digitally enabled systems of care.
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