Xin Zhao, Nicole A Stadnick, Eduardo Ceballos-Corro, Jorge Castro, Kera Mallard-Swanson, Kristina J Palomares, Elizabeth Eikey, Margaret Schneider, Kai Zheng, Dana B Mukamel, Stephen M Schueller, Dara H Sorkin
BACKGROUND: Digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) represent a promising solution to address the growing unmet mental health needs and increase access to care. Integrating DMHIs into clinical and community settings is challenging and complex. Frameworks that explore a wide range of factors, such as the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment (EPIS) framework, can be useful for examining multilevel factors related to DMHI implementation efforts. OBJECTIVE: This paper aimed to identify the barriers to, facilitators of, and best practice recommendations for implementing DMHIs across similar organizational settings, according to the EPIS domains of inner context, outer context, innovation factors, and bridging factors...
May 16, 2023: JMIR Formative Research