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The importance of trusting conditions for organizations’ readiness to implement mHealth to support healthy lifestyle behaviors: An interview study within Swedish child and school healthcare

OBJECTIVE: To explore perceptions among nurses, managers, and policymakers regarding organizational readiness to implement mHealth for the promotion of healthy lifestyle behaviors in child and school healthcare. METHODS: Individual semi-structured interviews with nurses (n = 10), managers (n = 10),...

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Autores principales: Fagerström, Maria, Löf, Marie, Müssener, Ulrika, Thomas, Kristin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10286530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37361431
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552076231181476
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Sumario:OBJECTIVE: To explore perceptions among nurses, managers, and policymakers regarding organizational readiness to implement mHealth for the promotion of healthy lifestyle behaviors in child and school healthcare. METHODS: Individual semi-structured interviews with nurses (n = 10), managers (n = 10), and policymakers (n = 8) within child and school healthcare in Sweden. Inductive content analysis was used for data analysis. RESULTS: Data showed that various trust-building aspects in health care organizations may contribute to readiness to implement mHealth. Several aspects were perceived to contribute trusting conditions: (a) how health-related data could be stored and managed; (b) how mHealth aligned with current organizational ways of working; (c) how implementation of mHealth was governed; and (d) camaraderie within a healthcare team to facilitate use of mHealth in practice. Poor capability to manage health-related data, as well as lack of governance of mHealth implementation were described as dealbreakers for readiness to implement mHealth in healthcare organizations. CONCLUSIONS: Healthcare professionals and policymakers perceived that trusting conditions for mHealth implementation within organizations were central for readiness. Specifically, governance of mHealth implementation and the ability to manage health-data produced by mHealth were perceived critical for readiness.