Table 3.
Summary of adaptations suggested and rejected for mobile health First Episode Digital Monitoring.
| Reason for suggested adaptation | Goal was to increase or improve | What was suggested, but not adapted | Type of adaptation not made | Reason why adaptation not made | ||||||
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Health narratives and priorities | |||||||||
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Time burden | Fit with recipients, feasibility | Reduce ping frequency | Content: shortening or condensing (pacing or timing), tailoring | Compromises core components | ||||
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Time burden | Fit with recipients, feasibility | Tailor ping timing around participant work or school hours | Content: shortening or condensing (pacing or timing), tailoring | Increases complexity | ||||
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Privacy or confidentiality | Reach and engagement | Offer non–app-based means of collecting information | Context: format | Beyond intervention scope | ||||
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Person-centered care | Fit with recipients, satisfaction | App: ask more positively worded questions | Content: adding elements | Increases recipient time burden | ||||
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Person-centered care | Fit with recipients, satisfaction | Ask more open-ended questions | Content: adding elements | Increases complexity of data or report | ||||
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Access to resources | |||||||||
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Technology | Reach and engagement, feasibility | Provide phones to participants | Implementation strategy: content, adding | Additional resources required (as well as in-person meeting during COVID-19 pandemic) | ||||
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Literacy or education level | |||||||||
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Data visualization | Fit with recipients | Report: simplify report so participants can understand it more easily | Content: tailoring or tweaking or refining | Compromises core components (may reduce usefulness to providers as primary targets) | ||||
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Clinical judgment | |||||||||
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Clinically meaningful information | Satisfaction, effectiveness | App: ask more about negative symptoms | Content: adding elements | Beyond intervention scope and increases time burden | ||||
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Clinically meaningful information | Satisfaction, effectiveness | App: ask about suicidal ideation | Content: adding elements | Additional resources required | ||||
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Clinically meaningful information | Satisfaction, effectiveness | Allow providers to access more information than what is on the report | Content: adding elements | Additional resources required | ||||
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Clinically meaningful information | Satisfaction, effectiveness | Collect data on days more removed from clinical session | Content: lengthening or extending (pacing or timing) | Beyond scope | ||||
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Preferences | |||||||||
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Data visualization | Satisfaction | Report: use bars on granular graphs | Context: format | Not consistent with most clinicians’ preferences | ||||
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Mission or culture | |||||||||
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Shared decision-making | Satisfaction, effectiveness | Send report or information directly to participant | Context: format | Additional resources required and beyond intervention scope | ||||