Adapting and Implementing Apps for Mental Healthcare.

Curr Psychiatry Rep

Section of Healthcare Research, LVR-Institute for Research and Education, Wilhelm-Griesinger Str. 23, 51109, Cologne, Germany.

Published: September 2022


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Purpose Of Review: To describe examples of adapting apps for use in mental healthcare and to formulate recommendations for successful adaptation in mental healthcare settings.

Recent Findings: International examples are given to explore implementation procedures to address this multitude of challenges. There are only few published examples of adapting apps for use in mental healthcare. From these examples and from results of studies in implementation science in general clinical settings, it can be concluded that the process of adapting apps for mental healthcare needs to address clinician training and information needs, user needs which include cultural adaptation and go beyond mere translation, and organizational needs for blending app use into everyday clinical mental healthcare workflows.

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