Design for Digital Mental Health Interventions: Optimizing Engagement and Implementation

Andrea K. Graham, PhD
Northwestern University

ABSTRACT:
Efforts to translate evidence-based digital health interventions from research to real-world settings have struggled with sustained consumer engagement and the successful integration of these tools into their targeted systems of care. User-centered design involves collaborating with end-users throughout the process of intervention design, testing, and implementation to ensure the intervention meets consumers’ needs and preferences, to in turn increase uptake and engagement. This presentation will describe design methods that aim to increase engagement in intervention design and implementation, drawing on examples from applying these methods to mobile interventions for different mental and behavioral health problems.