Towards mHealth Systems for Support of Psychotherapeutic Practice: A Qualitative Study of Researcher-Clinician Collaboration in System Design and Evaluation
Table 1
Central concepts in the participants’ accounts of their experiences from the collaborative research.
Manufactured objects
A1
Participatory design contract: the document describing the mHealth system development process; that is, how the joint meetings were to be led, the frequency of meetings, the communications routines, and so forth
A2
Trial protocol: the document describing the procedures that were to be followed before and after a client had agreed to be included in the evaluation trial
A3
mHealth system technology: the software applications in smartphones and on the server, the clinicians’ interface, and the data storage and communication infrastructure
Social phenomena
SP1
Shared commitment: motivation and interest among the parties involved in the research
SP2
Organizational environment of the mHealth system: legislation, bureaucratic formalities, staff replacements, workload, and so forth
SP3
The clinician-client relationship: the relationship between the clinician and client during the treatment process and its quality with regard to factors such as alliance, adherence, homework completion, and so forth
