User-centered design of a gamified mental health app for adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa: multicycle usability testing study

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Pozuelo, J.R., Moffett, B.D., Davis, M., Stein, A., Cohen, H., Craske, M.G., Maritze, M., Makhubela, P., Nabulumba, C., Sikoti, D., Kahn, K., Sodi, T., Van Heerden, A. & OMahen, H.A. (2023) User-centered design of a gamified mental health app for adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa: multicycle usability testing study. JMIR Formative Research. 7:Online. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/22744

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Abstract:
There is an urgent need for scalable psychological treatments to address adolescent depression in low-resource settings. Digital mental health interventions have many potential advantages, but few have been specifically designed for or rigorously evaluated with adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. This study had 2 main objectives. The first was to describe the user-centered development of a smartphone app that delivers behavioral activation (BA) to treat depression among adolescents in rural South Africa and Uganda. The second was to summarize the findings from multicycle usability testing.
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05 Dec 2023
 
MENTAL HEALTH
ADOLESCENTS
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
CHATBOTS
DEPRESSION
 
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