ArticleBMC health services research2023
A lowered threshold to partnerships: a mixed methods process evaluation of participants' experiences of a person-centred eHealth intervention.
Article in BMC health services research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03404583 (Person-centred eHealth for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Severe Stress and Burnout Syndrome - a Randomized Controlled Trial in Primary Health Care), which is not on this map. Cited by 5 papers.
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Person-centred eHealth for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Severe Stress and Burnout Syndrome - a Randomized Controlled Trial in Primary Health Care
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- A person-centred care intervention provided via eHealth to reduce fatigue in patients with common mental disorders - secondary outcome analysis from a randomized controlled trial.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2026Trial
- Efficacy of a Remote Person-Centered Intervention Using an eHealth Platform and Telephone Support for Persons With Chronic Pain: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR formative research · 2026Trial
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- Experiences of a remote, person-centred intervention in older persons living with frailty - a qualitative study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Learning from the implementation of person-centred care: a meta-synthesis of research related to the Gothenburg framework.Frontiers in health services · 2025Review
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Abstract
backgroundIn order to understand pathways of complex interventions, the Medical Research Council has suggested that process evaluations should be conducted alongside randomised controlled trials (RCTs). This paper presents a mixed methods process evaluation of a complex, person-centred eHealth intervention for persons on sick leave with common mental disorders.
aimThe aim of the study was to explore participants' experiences of a person-centred eHealth intervention and illuminate meaningful activities and processes.
methodsParticipants were recruited from the intervention arm of an RCT (n = 102). Questionnaires on perceived meaningfulness of the overall intervention and intervention activities were sent to participants on two occasions, after 3 and 6 months, and semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposeful sample of 15 participants in the intervention group. Questionnaire data were analysed using descriptive statistics, and interview data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. The quantitative and qualitative data strands were integrated at interpretation.
resultsAt both follow-ups, a majority of participants reported that the intervention was fully or partly meaningful and that the most meaningful activity was the phone calls with health care professionals working in the intervention. In the qualitative analysis, three categories describing participants' experiences of the intervention were formed: Acknowledgment in a disconcerting situation, Finding ways forward and Unmet expectations. A synthesis of quantitative and qualitative findings resulted in the overarching theme of meaningfulness as constituted by a lowered threshold to partnerships: support within reach, when needed.
conclusionExperiences of meaningfulness of the intervention were constituted by a lowered threshold to forming care partnerships, in which support was within reach, when needed. If the content of the intervention was not in accordance with individuals' needs or expectations, access alone did not suffice to constitute meaningfulness.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov; NCT03404583; 19/01/2018.
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