Strategies for Implementing Occupational eMental Health Interventions: Scoping Review

The implementation of eMental health interventions, especially in the workplace, is a complex process. Therefore, learning from existing implementation strategies is imperative to ensure improvements in the adoption, development, and scalability of occupational eMental health (OeMH) interventions. H...

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Published in:Journal of medical Internet research 2022-06, Vol.24 (6), p.e34479-e34479
Main Authors: Bernard, Renaldo M, Toppo, Claudia, Raggi, Alberto, de Mul, Marleen, de Miquel, Carlota, Pugliese, Maria Teresa, van der Feltz-Cornelis, Christina M, Ortiz-Tallo, Ana, Salvador-Carulla, Luis, Lukersmith, Sue, Hakkaart-van Roijen, Leona, Merecz-Kot, Dorota, Staszewska, Kaja, Sabariego, Carla
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial intelligence
Barriers
Computational linguistics
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Data Collection
Decision makers
Email
Employees
Empowerment
Grey literature
Health problems
Humans
Implementation
Intervention
Language processing
Medical research
Mental disorders
Mental health
Multimedia
Natural language interfaces
Occupational Health
Online instruction
Pandemics
Psychologists
Public health
Researchers
Review
Technology
Telemedicine
Uptake
Work environment
Workplace
Workplaces
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Summary:The implementation of eMental health interventions, especially in the workplace, is a complex process. Therefore, learning from existing implementation strategies is imperative to ensure improvements in the adoption, development, and scalability of occupational eMental health (OeMH) interventions. However, the implementation strategies used for these interventions are often undocumented or inadequately reported and have not been systematically gathered across implementations in a way that can serve as a much-needed guide for researchers. The objective of this scoping review was to identify implementation strategies relevant to the uptake of OeMH interventions that target employees and detail the associated barriers and facilitation measures. A scoping review was conducted. The descriptive synthesis was guided by the RE-AIM (reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance) framework and the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research. A total of 31 of 32,916 (0.09%) publications reporting the use of the web-, smartphone-, telephone-, and email-based OeMH interventions were included. In all, 98 implementation strategies, 114 barriers, and 131 facilitators were identified. The synthesis of barriers and facilitators produced 19 facilitation measures that provide initial recommendations for improving the implementation of OeMH interventions. This scoping review represents one of the first steps in a research agenda aimed at improving the implementation of OeMH interventions by systematically selecting, shaping, evaluating, and reporting implementation strategies. There is a dire need for improved reporting of implementation strategies and combining common implementation frameworks with more technology-centric implementation frameworks to fully capture the complexities of eHealth implementation. Future research should investigate a wider range of common implementation outcomes for OeMH interventions that also focus on a wider set of common mental health problems in the workplace. This scoping review's findings can be critically leveraged by discerning decision-makers to improve the reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance of OeMH interventions.
ISSN:1438-8871
1439-4456
1438-8871
DOI:10.2196/34479