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An interview study to understand how currently available eMental Health interventions for informal caregivers handle stakeholder involvement
Herting, Vincent (2022) An interview study to understand how currently available eMental Health interventions for informal caregivers handle stakeholder involvement.
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| Abstract: | eHealth technologies lift the burden from the overstrained healthcare system and offer informal caregivers assistance and guidance in caring for their ill relatives or friends. These technologies facilitate self-management and aim to relief the psychological and physical demands that follow from continuous caregiving. A qualitative semi-structured interview study was carried out to conduct a thematic analysis to answer the research question. Six companies that successfully launched an eMental Health intervention were interviewed. Needs of stakeholders were identified and translated into values of the eMental Health technologies. The most central needs and values are self-management skills, self-efficacy, trustworthiness and an easy usability. The key stakeholders of the interventions were the end-users that helped to shape the design and implementation process. Theories and implementation frameworks were considered by the majority of the companies and used sporadically to design and implement the interventions. A lack of stakeholder involvement beyond the end-users was established. Further, a limited amount of usability testing was conducted during and after the implementation. Involving stakeholders facilitates an effective, user-centered and tailored intervention to the target group. However, the interventions were hardly evaluated on effectiveness by the interviewed companies and therefore aggravate comparability between the interventions. Further, future studies should consider the success and effectiveness of an intervention when investigating the impact of stakeholder involvement. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/90892 |
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