TY - JOUR
T1 - eHealth Technology in Forensic Mental Healthcare
T2 - Recommendations for Achieving Benefits and Overcoming Barriers
AU - Kip, Hanneke
AU - Oberschmidt, Kira
AU - Bierbooms, Joyce J.P.A.
N1 - Funding Information:
for this study was provided by Kwaliteit Forensische Zorg (KFZ), under grant Pre-call 2018-80. We would like to thank the members of the project team for their valuable contributions to the project: Saskia Kelders, University of Twente; Dirk Dijkslag, Transfore; Bianca Roelofsen, GGZ Noord-Holland-Noord; Ron Voorhuis, Transfore; Monique van Haaren, GGzE; Tanja van der Gulik, GGZ Noord-Holland Noord. No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2021/1/2
Y1 - 2021/1/2
N2 - While eHealth technologies such as web-based interventions, mobile apps, and virtual reality have the potential to be of added value for forensic mental healthcare, there is a gap between this potential and the current situation in practice. The goal of this study was to identify recommendations to bridge this gap. In total, 21 semi-structured interviews and 89 questionnaires were conducted in a Dutch forensic mental healthcare sample consisting of professionals, patients, and eHealth experts. Based on the broad range of identified recommendations, it can be concluded that attention should be paid to the characteristics of professionals, patients, technology, and the organization throughout the development, implementation and evaluation of eHealth.
AB - While eHealth technologies such as web-based interventions, mobile apps, and virtual reality have the potential to be of added value for forensic mental healthcare, there is a gap between this potential and the current situation in practice. The goal of this study was to identify recommendations to bridge this gap. In total, 21 semi-structured interviews and 89 questionnaires were conducted in a Dutch forensic mental healthcare sample consisting of professionals, patients, and eHealth experts. Based on the broad range of identified recommendations, it can be concluded that attention should be paid to the characteristics of professionals, patients, technology, and the organization throughout the development, implementation and evaluation of eHealth.
KW - UT-Hybrid-D
KW - forensic mental healthcare
KW - forensic psychiatry
KW - virtual reality
KW - web-based interventions
KW - eHealth
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85089780263&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14999013.2020.1808914
DO - 10.1080/14999013.2020.1808914
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089780263
VL - 20
SP - 31
EP - 47
JO - International Journal of Forensic Mental Health
JF - International Journal of Forensic Mental Health
SN - 1499-9013
IS - 1
ER -