Digital Mental Health and Its Discontents : Assumptions About Technology That Create Barriers to Equitable Access

Despite the potential of digital mental health interventions to aid recovery for people with serious mental illness, access to these digital tools remains a key barrier. In this column, the authors discuss three key assumptions that shape the integration of digital mental health tools into community health settings: clinical context, digital literacy, and financial burden. Clinical contexts have shifted with the increased use of telehealth, altering intervention environments; access to a mobile device is not the same as digital literacy; and digital mental health care is not necessarily affordable. Context-centered study design through ethnography will facilitate transfer of digital resources to real-world settings.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:75

Enthalten in:

Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) - 75(2024), 3 vom: 01. März, Seite 299-302

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kozelka, Ellen E [VerfasserIn]
Acquilano, Stephanie C [VerfasserIn]
Al-Abdulmunem, Monirah [VerfasserIn]
Guarino, Sue [VerfasserIn]
Elwyn, Glyn [VerfasserIn]
Drake, Robert E [VerfasserIn]
Carpenter-Song, Elizabeth [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Community mental health services
Digital health care
Journal Article
Qualitative methods
Quality improvement
Research design

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Date Completed 04.03.2024

Date Revised 04.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1176/appi.ps.20230238

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365413887