Incorporating Stakeholder Voices into Data Dashboards: A Qualitative Study of the State of Texas Mental Health Dashboard.

Deborah A Harris, Gloria Martinez-Ramos, Rachel Romero, Toni Watt

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Article in Community mental health journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Deborah A HarrisDepartment of Sociology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA. dh57@txstate.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9890-0001

Gloria Martinez-RamosDepartment of Sociology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA.

Rachel RomeroDepartment of Sociology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA.

Toni WattDepartment of Sociology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA.

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Abstract

The U.S. mental health crisis requires new tools to address mental healthcare needs. Data dashboards are a means of sharing community health data on many topics, including mental health. Unfortunately, many "community" dashboards are designed without stakeholder input. This article outlines the creation of the State of Texas Mental Health Dashboard and how researchers incorporated stakeholder feedback throughout its development. Researchers conducted nine focus groups with community stakeholders from two Texas counties. This feedback illustrated some key differences between designers' priorities and what stakeholders considered most relevant. Designers prioritized access to state and local mental health data. While stakeholders found the data useful, they also advocated for tools to identify community mental health resources. Our findings illustrate how excluding stakeholder voices from the design process could have omitted a key element needed to address mental healthcare needs and provides a process for ensuring that local input drives the design process.

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Community Mental Health ServicesMental Health ServicesStakeholder ParticipationDashboard SystemsFocus GroupsHumansMental HealthQualitative ResearchTexasCommunity engaged researchCommunity stakeholdersData dashboardsFocus groupsMental health

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PMID39821748

DOI10.1007/s10597-025-01449-w

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