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Human-Centered Design Exploration With Kenyan Health Workers On Proposed Digital Mental Health Screening And Intervention Training Development: Thematic Analysis Of User Preferences And Needs, Manasi Kumar, Paul Macharia, Vincent Nyongesa, Joseph Kathono, Obadia Yator, Shillah Mwaniga, Mary Mckay, Keng Yen Huang, Rahul Shidhaye, Simon Njuguna Aug 2022

Human-Centered Design Exploration With Kenyan Health Workers On Proposed Digital Mental Health Screening And Intervention Training Development: Thematic Analysis Of User Preferences And Needs, Manasi Kumar, Paul Macharia, Vincent Nyongesa, Joseph Kathono, Obadia Yator, Shillah Mwaniga, Mary Mckay, Keng Yen Huang, Rahul Shidhaye, Simon Njuguna

Brain and Mind Institute

Background: Health providers' perceived sense of knowledge, competency, and self-efficacy to support the needs of their patients contributes to optimal patient health outcomes. With regards to mental health service delivery in Kenya, this area needs further exploration. Guided by the e-health technology acceptance mode, the needs and preferences of health care providers around mental health training for clinical management and their ability to intervene in peripartum adolescent mental health care are explored. We probed how well-equipped service providers are, their engagement with technology to learn and offer services. The health care provider's technology use preferences were also explored.

Method: Guided …