📡 IMSPARK: Digital Access to Care in the Pacific 📡

#BridgingTheDivide, #CommunityEmpowerment, #DigitalDivide, #DigitalInclusion, #DigitalNavigator, #HealthAccess, #HealthEquity, #IMSPARK, #PacificResilience, #Telehealth

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digitalLIFT employees Antoinette Lakey, Ethen Baca and Jessica Strom participated today in San Antonio’s annual MLK March, known as the largest in the country, drawing hundreds of thousands of people each year.

#MLKday #DigitalLiteracy #DigitalNavigator #digitalLIFT

Young People’s Experiences Using a #Digital #MentalHealth Tool to Support Their Care in a Real-World Service: Lived Experience–Led Qualitative Study Background: Measurement-based care (MBC) uptake is suboptimal in #MentalHealthcare, limiting key opportunities to facilitate data-driven symptom monitoring and progress feedback. This misses critical opportunities for enhanced patient-clinician communication and early intervention. Objective: To understand young people’s changing perspectives, engagement, and value-add of the #Digitally-enabled MBC over time. Methods: As part of a randomised controlled trial, an added human support, the #Digital navigator (DN), provided technological and engagement assistance for young people to integrate an online platform (#Digitally-enabled MBC) as part of usual care. The DN conducted 118 semi-structured interviews with 73 young people (mean age 22.7 years, SD = 2.7) at baseline and 3-, 6- and 12-months follow-up visits. Results: We found that the majority of the young people were enthusiastic about incorporating #Digitally-enabled MBC in care when they understood its potential to facilitate collaborative care with clinicians and enhance self-awareness about their #MentalHealth. Notably, the DN’s support was effective in fostering this understanding at the initial stage of implementation. However, it was evident that the lack of clinician involvement in MBC posed a risk of disillusionment to young people’s sustained engagement. As reported, clinician uptake of #Digitally-enabled MBC was poor, limiting its perceived value-add and sustainability. Conclusions: #Digital technology shows significant potential for implementing MBC into #MentalHealth care. Young people want to use #Digitally-enabled MBC in their care and DNs can facilitate implementation through ongoing engagement and technical support. However, successful MBC implementation depends on broader systemic factors, particularly clinician and service engagement. Future research should examine how to address these contextual barriers and optimise DN support for implementation and sustained engagement.

JMIR Mental Health: Young People’s Experiences Using a #Digital #MentalHealth Tool to Support Their Care in a Real-World Service: Lived Experience–Led Qualitative Study #DigitalHealth #MentalHealth #YouthEngagement #MentalHealthcare #DigitalNavigator

Happy National AI Literacy Day 🤖

AI literacy isn’t optional. It’s part of protecting LGBTQ+ lives. When we understand how AI works, we can demand better, safer systems that serve us - not harm us.

#LGBTTech #AILiteracyDay #AI #onlinesafety #staysafeonline #poweron #paths #digitalnavigator