Table 4.
Patient Acceptability of Standard MBC and eMBC
| Options | Adult Patients | Adolescent Patients | Pediatric Family Members | ALL | Total Difference | Adult vs Patients | Adult vs Family Members | Adolescent vs Family Members |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acceptability of standard MBC | ||||||||
| I would like to (have my child) spend 5 minutes completing a questionnaire before each follow-up appointment with my doctor. | 5.00±0.93 | 4.63±1.16 | 4.93±0.94 | 4.89±1.01 | 0.002 | 0.001 | 1.000 | 0.101 |
| I (and my child) want to be more actively involved in my own treatment decisions for my depression. | 5.25±0.83 | 4.52±1.17 | 5.36±0.71 | 5.07±0.98 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.000 | 0.000 |
| I believe documenting changes in my (child’s) depressive symptoms with a short questionnaire would help me with my (child’s) depression. | 4.94±1.02 | 4.27±1.27 | 4.83±1.00 | 4.73±1.13 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.709 | 0.001 |
| I believe documenting changes in my (child’s) depressive symptoms with a short questionnaire would help me (my child and me) and my doctor discuss my treatment for depression. | 5.02±0.95 | 4.45±1.23 | 4.97±0.88 | 4.85±1.05 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.000 | 0.001 |
| I believe that using the questionnaire described in the scenario will help understand my (child’s) depression condition. | 5.00±0.93 | 4.42±1.20 | 5.03±0.87 | 4.85±1.03 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.000 | 0.000 |
| Acceptability of eMBC | ||||||||
| I would be willing to use resources on the Internet, such as those described in the above scenario, to help manage my (child’s) depression. | 4.77±1.07 | 4.28±1.25 | 4.81±1.00 | 4.64±1.13 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.000 | 0.001 |
| I am willing to (have my child) use a phone app to track my symptoms if my doctor recommends it. | 4.94±1.02 | 4.46±1.13 | 4.73±1.02 | 4.76±1.07 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.147 | 0.086 |
| I believe my child could use a cell phone app to complete a short depressive symptom questionnaire regularly (eg, every two weeks) | 4.87±0.99 | 4.45±1.15 | 4.68±0.95 | 4.71±1.04 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.146 | 0.373 |
Notes: Columns 2 to 5 of the table are the mean and standard deviation of the Likert scores, column 6 is the p-value of the three groups after the K-W test, and columns 7, 8 and 9 are the Bonferroni-corrected p-values after pairwise comparison.