In-Depth Co-Design of Mental Health Monitoring Technologies by People with Lived Experience
Advancements in digital monitoring solutions collaborate closely with electronic medical records. These fine-grained monitoring capacities can generate and process extensive electronic record data. Such capacities promise to enhance mental health care but also risk contributing to further stigmatiza...
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| author | Bronwin Patrickson Mike Musker Dan Thorpe Yasmin van Kasteren Niranjan Bidargaddi The Consumer and Carer Advisory Group (CCAG) |
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| description | Advancements in digital monitoring solutions collaborate closely with electronic medical records. These fine-grained monitoring capacities can generate and process extensive electronic record data. Such capacities promise to enhance mental health care but also risk contributing to further stigmatization, prejudicial decision-making, and fears of disempowerment. This article discusses the problems and solutions identified by nine people with lived experience of being mental health care consumers or informal carers. Over the course of ten facilitated focus group format sessions (two hours) between October 2019 and April 2021, the participants shared their lived experience of mental health challenges, care, and recovery within the Australian context. To support the development, design, and implementation of monitoring technologies, problems, and solutions were outlined in the following areas—access, agency, interactions with medical practitioners, medication management, and self-monitoring. Emergent design insights include recommendations for strengthened consent procedures, flexible service access options, and humanized consumer interactions. While consumers and carers saw value in digital monitoring technologies that could enable them to take on a more proactive involvement in their personal wellness, they had questions about their level of access to such services and expressed concerns about the changes to interactions with health professionals that might emerge from these digitally enabled processes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-74f0d46dd16143e79f6fcff4932d3d312023-11-18T10:30:12ZengMDPI AGFuture Internet1999-59032023-05-0115619110.3390/fi15060191In-Depth Co-Design of Mental Health Monitoring Technologies by People with Lived ExperienceBronwin Patrickson0Mike Musker1Dan Thorpe2Yasmin van Kasteren3Niranjan Bidargaddi4The Consumer and Carer Advisory Group (CCAG)5Digital Health Research Lab, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042, AustraliaMental Health and Suicide Prevention Research and Education Group, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, AustraliaDigital Health Research Lab, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042, AustraliaDigital Health Research Lab, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042, AustraliaDigital Health Research Lab, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042, AustraliaConsumer and Carers Advisory Group, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, SA 5000, AustraliaAdvancements in digital monitoring solutions collaborate closely with electronic medical records. These fine-grained monitoring capacities can generate and process extensive electronic record data. Such capacities promise to enhance mental health care but also risk contributing to further stigmatization, prejudicial decision-making, and fears of disempowerment. This article discusses the problems and solutions identified by nine people with lived experience of being mental health care consumers or informal carers. Over the course of ten facilitated focus group format sessions (two hours) between October 2019 and April 2021, the participants shared their lived experience of mental health challenges, care, and recovery within the Australian context. To support the development, design, and implementation of monitoring technologies, problems, and solutions were outlined in the following areas—access, agency, interactions with medical practitioners, medication management, and self-monitoring. Emergent design insights include recommendations for strengthened consent procedures, flexible service access options, and humanized consumer interactions. While consumers and carers saw value in digital monitoring technologies that could enable them to take on a more proactive involvement in their personal wellness, they had questions about their level of access to such services and expressed concerns about the changes to interactions with health professionals that might emerge from these digitally enabled processes.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/15/6/191co-designmental health lived experiencedigital mental healthelectronic medical recordshealth monitoring technologies |
| spellingShingle | Bronwin Patrickson Mike Musker Dan Thorpe Yasmin van Kasteren Niranjan Bidargaddi The Consumer and Carer Advisory Group (CCAG) In-Depth Co-Design of Mental Health Monitoring Technologies by People with Lived Experience Future Internet co-design mental health lived experience digital mental health electronic medical records health monitoring technologies |
| title | In-Depth Co-Design of Mental Health Monitoring Technologies by People with Lived Experience |
| title_full | In-Depth Co-Design of Mental Health Monitoring Technologies by People with Lived Experience |
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| title_short | In-Depth Co-Design of Mental Health Monitoring Technologies by People with Lived Experience |
| title_sort | in depth co design of mental health monitoring technologies by people with lived experience |
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