Editorial: Dissemination, implementation and uptake of digital interventions in practice
Deze editorial introduceert een themanummer over hoe digitale geestelijke gezondheidszorginterventies van onderzoek naar klinische praktijk overgaan. Het formuleert de kernvragen: waarom blijft de adoptie laag ondanks een sterke evidentiebase, welke implementatiebarrières zijn het belangrijkst, en welke onderzoeksdesigns kunnen de kloof helpen overbruggen? Een nuttig oriënterend stuk voor clinici, onderzoekers en beleidsmakers die zich bezighouden met de implementatiewetenschap van digitale gezondheid.
Samenvatting
The effectiveness of a wide range of digital interventions, like guided self-help interventions, has been well established for common mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety. In highly controlled research studies, these interventions have a substantial impact, leading to both decreases in participants’ symptoms, as well as improvements in their quality of life. Similar effects are also increasingly being reported in routine clinical practice. In general, guidance by mental healthcare professionals allows for sufficiently high adherence and limits drop-out which are key to maximise the potential of these interventions. Research has in the past already focused on how digital interventions are both perceived, as well as received by end-users and on the effective implementation of such interventions. Although initial studies were primarily observational, i.e., describing implementation problems and barriers, research in recent years has also increasingly started to focus on developing and testing strategies to overcome these. However, due to the applied nature and complex settings in which these studies take place, this remains particularly challenging, especially when it comes to measuring these processes and outcomes. The current Research Topic focuses on this developing domain of implementation science and encompasses two topics related to digital interventions: attitudes and acceptance of end-users and routine care implementation.
Trefwoorden: implementation, dissemination, digital mental health, uptake, practice
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Referentie
Van Daele, T., Vis, C., Van Assche, E., & Riper, H. (2024). Editorial: Dissemination, implementation and uptake of digital and technological interventions in practice. Frontiers in Digital Health, 5, 1349545. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2023.1349545