Table 2.
Summary of adaptations suggested and accepted for mobile health First Episode Digital Monitoring.
| Reason for suggested adaptation | Goal was to increase or improve | What was suggested and adapted | Type of adaptation made | |||||
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Health narratives and priorities | |||||||
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Time burden | Fit with recipients, feasibility | Repeat or reassure that skipping some questionnaires is OK | Implementation strategy: content-repeating | |||
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Privacy or confidentiality | Reach and engagement | Repeat information regarding confidentiality | Implementation strategy: content-repeating | |||
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Person-centered care | Fit with recipients, satisfaction | Report: use person-centered, experience-based language vs medicalized language | Content: tailoring or tweaking or refining | |||
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Recovery-oriented approach | Fit with recipients, satisfaction | App: ask how bothersome symptom is and impact on functioning | Content: adding elements | |||
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Access to resources | |||||||
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Technology | Reach and engagement, feasibility | Check smartphone compatibility before enrollment | Implementation strategy: context, format | |||
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Crisis or emergent circumstance | |||||||
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Participant safety | Fit with recipients | Include suicidal ideation as exclusionary criteria | Context: population | |||
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Comorbidities | |||||||
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Multiple mental health symptoms or conditions | Effectiveness | Clarify instructions to include multiple psychiatric medications | Implementation strategy: content-tailoring or tweaking or refining | |||
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Physical health side effects | Fit with recipients, satisfaction | App: ask about weight gain as potential side effect | Content: adding elements | |||
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Clinical judgment | |||||||
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Clinically meaningful information | Satisfaction, effectiveness | App: ask about timing of medication use and factor in for adherence | Content: adding elements | |||
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Clinically meaningful information | Satisfaction, effectiveness | Report: include substance use and caffeine use on report | Content: adding elements | |||
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Clinically meaningful information | Satisfaction, effectiveness | Report: include lines for daily averages on report’s granular graphs | Content: adding elements | |||
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Previous training or skills | Feasibility | Train providers to read report and include legend | Training content: adding elements | |||
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Preferences | |||||||
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Data visualization | Satisfaction | Report: reduce report or graph density (eg, focus on subset of symptoms or side effects) | Context: format | |||
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Data visualization | Satisfaction | Report: use dots on report’s granular graphs | Context: format | |||
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Service structure | |||||||
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Team-based care | Feasibility, effectiveness | Option to share report with multiple staff | Context: personnel | |||
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Mission or culture | |||||||
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Shared decision-making | Satisfaction, effectiveness | Option for clinician to show report to the participant | Context: format | |||
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Existing policies | |||||||
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COVID-19 pandemic social distancing mandates | Reach and engagement | Attend web-based program meeting for introduction or warm handoff to client for recruitment | Implementation strategy: context, format | |||
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COVID-19 pandemic social distancing mandates | Reach and engagement | Option to receive an e-gift card as participant reimbursement | Implementation strategy: context, format | |||