Digitally mediated service provision for children’s social, emotional and mental health: key indicators for evaluation
Introduction: Remote delivery of assessment, consultation and therapy via digital communication technologies in mental health services is important in rural locations, and has rapidly increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This UK-based research investigated what factors should be con...
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Introduction: Remote delivery of assessment, consultation and therapy via digital communication technologies in mental health services is important in rural locations, and has rapidly increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: This UK-based research investigated what factors should be considered in the development and evaluation of digitally mediated service provision for children and young people with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs using two approaches: (1) a focus group with five young people (aged 16-19 years) and (2) an online survey with 18 parents/carers of primary-age children with SEMH difficulties.
Results: Getting help quickly was most important to both young people and parents/carers when accessing services, with having a say in their care of equal importance to young people but not parents/carers. Analysis identified participants' preferences and perceived positives and negatives of digitally mediated service provision.
Conclusion: Digitally mediated service provision should be timely and patient-centred to be considered acceptable by young people with SEMH needs and their parents/carers. Evaluations should include comprehensive measures of service efficiency and service user experience to better understand the benefits of digital mediation.
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| spelling | doaj.art-84e843ea298442f8be0bb4f13c712cd02023-01-16T23:14:08ZengJames Cook UniversityRural and Remote Health1445-63542023-01-012310.22605/RRH7747Digitally mediated service provision for children’s social, emotional and mental health: key indicators for evaluationLauren Jones0Ailsa Russell1Mark Brosnan2Centre for Applied Autism Research, Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UKCentre for Applied Autism Research, Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UKCentre for Applied Autism Research, Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK Introduction: Remote delivery of assessment, consultation and therapy via digital communication technologies in mental health services is important in rural locations, and has rapidly increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This UK-based research investigated what factors should be considered in the development and evaluation of digitally mediated service provision for children and young people with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs using two approaches: (1) a focus group with five young people (aged 16-19 years) and (2) an online survey with 18 parents/carers of primary-age children with SEMH difficulties. Results: Getting help quickly was most important to both young people and parents/carers when accessing services, with having a say in their care of equal importance to young people but not parents/carers. Analysis identified participants' preferences and perceived positives and negatives of digitally mediated service provision. Conclusion: Digitally mediated service provision should be timely and patient-centred to be considered acceptable by young people with SEMH needs and their parents/carers. Evaluations should include comprehensive measures of service efficiency and service user experience to better understand the benefits of digital mediation. https://www.rrh.org.au/journal/article/7747/child healthdelivery of health carehealthcare quality indicatorsmental health servicesrural health servicestelemedicine |
| spellingShingle | Lauren Jones Ailsa Russell Mark Brosnan Digitally mediated service provision for children’s social, emotional and mental health: key indicators for evaluation Rural and Remote Health child health delivery of health care healthcare quality indicators mental health services rural health services telemedicine |
| title | Digitally mediated service provision for children’s social, emotional and mental health: key indicators for evaluation |
| title_full | Digitally mediated service provision for children’s social, emotional and mental health: key indicators for evaluation |
| title_fullStr | Digitally mediated service provision for children’s social, emotional and mental health: key indicators for evaluation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digitally mediated service provision for children’s social, emotional and mental health: key indicators for evaluation |
| title_short | Digitally mediated service provision for children’s social, emotional and mental health: key indicators for evaluation |
| title_sort | digitally mediated service provision for children rsquo s social emotional and mental health key indicators for evaluation |
| topic | child health delivery of health care healthcare quality indicators mental health services rural health services telemedicine |
| url | https://www.rrh.org.au/journal/article/7747/ |
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