Digital Health Interventions include a broad and wide spectrum of interventions aiming to improve mental and physical health across different contexts (e.g., hospital, community) and populations (e.g., maternal, diabetes, renal, ADHD, Autism). Well-designed interventions consider theoretical frameworks of behaviour change, human-centred design through patient and participant involvement and engagement (PPIE) as well as co-design, usability, feasibility and robust evaluation through trials to ultimately prove its effectiveness in improving people’s health. Challenges remain in terms of intervention description, technological issues, mismatch between Digital Health Intervention and user needs, long-term engagement, funding models, as well as deciding on what the most optimal evaluation approaches are in deciding upon its effectiveness.The aim of the current Research Topic “Designing and Evaluating Digital Health Interventions” is to establish a collection of high-quality diverse manuscripts representing the academic field of Digital Health Interventions. It will give a widespread overview of theoretical underpinnings of Digital Health Interventions, how interventions are co-designed with different end-users representing different needs and contexts, and which approaches are feasible and suitable when evaluating Digital Health Interventions. A variety of challenges from different perspectives will be taken into account contributing to further research directions. This will be formulated based on different contexts, populations and approaches in designing and evaluating Digital Health Interventions.This Research Topic will accept manuscripts focussing on research designing and evaluating Digital Health Interventions for a broad variety of contexts (e.g., hospital, community) and populations (e.g., maternal, diabetes, renal, ADHD, Autism). Mixed-method approaches are encouraged in designing and evaluating Digital Health Interventions. It will embrace a cross-disciplinary approach bringing together expertise from e.g., epidemiology, public health, nursing, medicine, health psychology, engineering and human-centred design. Challenges and future research recommendations will be presented in a manner that represents a common vision across a variety of disciplines.
Digital Health Interventions include a broad and wide spectrum of interventions aiming to improve mental and physical health across different contexts (e.g., hospital, community) and populations (e.g., maternal, diabetes, renal, ADHD, Autism). Well-designed interventions consider theoretical frameworks of behaviour change, human-centred design through patient and participant involvement and engagement (PPIE) as well as co-design, usability, feasibility and robust evaluation through trials to ultimately prove its effectiveness in improving people’s health. Challenges remain in terms of intervention description, technological issues, mismatch between Digital Health Intervention and user needs, long-term engagement, funding models, as well as deciding on what the most optimal evaluation approaches are in deciding upon its effectiveness.The aim of the current Research Topic “Designing and Evaluating Digital Health Interventions” is to establish a collection of high-quality diverse manuscripts representing the academic field of Digital Health Interventions. It will give a widespread overview of theoretical underpinnings of Digital Health Interventions, how interventions are co-designed with different end-users representing different needs and contexts, and which approaches are feasible and suitable when evaluating Digital Health Interventions. A variety of challenges from different perspectives will be taken into account contributing to further research directions. This will be formulated based on different contexts, populations and approaches in designing and evaluating Digital Health Interventions.This Research Topic will accept manuscripts focussing on research designing and evaluating Digital Health Interventions for a broad variety of contexts (e.g., hospital, community) and populations (e.g., maternal, diabetes, renal, ADHD, Autism). Mixed-method approaches are encouraged in designing and evaluating Digital Health Interventions. It will embrace a cross-disciplinary approach bringing together expertise from e.g., epidemiology, public health, nursing, medicine, health psychology, engineering and human-centred design. Challenges and future research recommendations will be presented in a manner that represents a common vision across a variety of disciplines.