ArticleInternet interventions2022
Mental health professionals views and the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on implementing digital mental health in China: A nationwide survey study.
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- Health Care Professionals' Views on the Use of Passive Sensing, AI, and Machine Learning in Mental Health Care: Systematic Review With Meta-Synthesis.JMIR mental health · 2024Pooled it
- Exploring Chinese older adults' acceptance of digital mental health interventions: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Mental Health Professionals' Technology Usage and Attitudes Toward Digital Health for Psychosis: Comparative Cross-Sectional Survey Study.JMIR mental health · 2025Article
- Healthcare professionals' views on implementing digital health tools in psychosis: a national survey in the UK.BMJ digital health & AI · 2025Article
- Acceptability and experience of a smartphone symptom monitoring app for people with psychosis in China (YouXin): a qualitative study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
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- A Digital System (YouXin) to Facilitate Self-Management by People With Psychosis in China: Protocol for a Nonrandomized Validity and Feasibility Study With a Mixed Methods Design.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: Using digital health technologies (DHTs) to deliver and augment healthcare is an innovative way to solve common challenges that the mental healthcare setting faces. Despite China's rapid development of DHT, a comprehensive understanding of staff views of DHTs is lacking, which limited the evidence to support implementation strategies. In the current study, we aim to: (i) investigate staff attitudes towards digital technology for mental health problems in China; (ii) explore staff's views on the facilitators and barriers regarding uptake and adoption of digital technology in mental health services in China; and (iii) understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed staff views on digital mental health. Methods: An online survey was conducted to explore staff attitudes towards implementing DHTs in China. Descriptive statistics were conducted to summarise quantitative data. Free-text data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. Results: 1270 mental health professionals completed the survey. Respondents reported low levels of knowledge of DHTs and moderate levels of accessibility of DHTs in their hospitals. Respondents expressed positive attitudes towards DHTs and demonstrated moderate levels of perceived feasibility and acceptability of implementing DHTs in clinical services. As expected, respondents reported that the COVID-19 pandemic caused significant impacts on their clinical services, and almost all respondents deemed DHTs useful for services provision during the pandemic and were willing to apply such technologies in clinical services after the pandemic. Conclusions: Despite the Chinese mental health staff expressed positive attitudes towards implementing DHTs in clinical practice, most of the staff lacked sufficient knowledge to provide such services. These findings highlight the need to develop implementation strategies such as training programmes and dissemination of research evidence to support the translation of research.
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