Co-design of digital mental health technologies with children and young people
Duration: 4 mins
Publication Date: 1 Sep 2020
Next Review Date: 1 Sep 2023
DOI: 10.13056/acamh.13127
Description
In this Video Abstract, Dr. Rhys Bevan Jones discusses his JCPP paper ‘Practitioner review: Co-design of digital mental health technologies with children and young people’. There is increasing interest in digital technologies to help improve children and young people’s mental health, and the evidence for the effectiveness for these approaches is rising. However, there is concern regarding levels of user engagement, uptake and adherence. Key guidance regarding digital health interventions stress the importance of early user input in the development, evaluation and implementation of technologies to help ensure they are engaging, feasible, acceptable and potentially effective. Co-design is a process of active involvement of stakeholders, requiring a change from the traditional approaches to intervention development. However, there is a lack of literature to inform the co-design of digital technologies to help child and adolescent mental health.
Learning Objectives
1. Review the literature and practice in the co-design of digital mental health technologies with children and young people
2. Examine the existing evidence and practice for the co-design with children and young people.
3. Explore practice points to help guide the planning, reporting and analysis of co-design activities.
