Current trends in e-mental health interventions: Health care providers' attitudes and usage patterns

IF 3.6 2区医学 Q1 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Internet Interventions-The Application of Information Technology in Mental and Behavioural Health Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI:10.1016/j.invent.2025.100808

Elena Caroline Weitzel , Katja Schladitz , Maria Schwenke , Franziska Dinah Welzel , Georg Schomerus , Peter Schönknecht , Markus Bleckwenn , Anja Mehnert-Theuerkauf , Steffi G. Riedel-Heller , Margrit Löbner

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Abstract

Objective

E-mental health interventions can usefully supplement mental health care. Health care providers are important to the routine implementation. Until now, little has been known about their attitudes about e-mental health and its use in treatment. This study aims to comprehensively examine health care providers' attitudes and experiences regarding e-mental health interventions over time.

Methods

Data for this explorative analysis derive from a longitudinal study of N = 335 health care providers from four professional groups in German mental health care (GPs, specialist doctors, psychotherapists, and clinicians). In two surveys conducted one year apart, usage as well as advantages of and barriers to e-mental health interventions were assessed. Usage patterns based on self-report were examined according to socio-demographic correlates. In a binary logistic regression, correlations between use at follow-up and baseline variables were analyzed.

Results

At follow-up, the inclusion of e-mental health interventions in treatment was increased to 40 % compared to baseline (28.4 %). Also, more participants reported having better knowledge and having received information about e-mental health. Gender, age, and knowledge about e-mental health interventions were significantly associated with usage patterns. In the regression analysis, gender, age, and professional group were relevant predictors of use at follow-up.

Conclusion

Our results show that increasingly health care providers are including e-mental health interventions in treatment. This is presumably related to better knowledge. However, it is clear that e-mental health interventions are not yet an established component of health care. Rather, implementation efforts, particularly the dissemination of informational materials, are required to promote the use.

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Internet Interventions-The Application of Information Technology in Mental and Behavioural Health Medicine-Health Informatics

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6.50

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9.30%

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6 weeks

期刊介绍： Official Journal of the European Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ESRII) and the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII). The aim of Internet Interventions is to publish scientific, peer-reviewed, high-impact research on Internet interventions and related areas. Internet Interventions welcomes papers on the following subjects: • Intervention studies targeting the promotion of mental health and featuring the Internet and/or technologies using the Internet as an underlying technology, e.g. computers, smartphone devices, tablets, sensors • Implementation and dissemination of Internet interventions • Integration of Internet interventions into existing systems of care • Descriptions of development and deployment infrastructures • Internet intervention methodology and theory papers • Internet-based epidemiology • Descriptions of new Internet-based technologies and experiments with clinical applications • Economics of internet interventions (cost-effectiveness) • Health care policy and Internet interventions • The role of culture in Internet intervention • Internet psychometrics • Ethical issues pertaining to Internet interventions and measurements • Human-computer interaction and usability research with clinical implications • Systematic reviews and meta-analysis on Internet interventions