@article{01K6FYV583FT8RFE99VE60TTPR,
  abstract     = {{Objectives: This study identifies facilitators and challenges in the co-creation of digital health interventions for public health.

Study design: An exploratory multiple case study design was used to analyse three co-created digital health interventions.

Methods: Data were collected for three digital health interventions via expert interviews (n = 11), open-ended survey responses (n = 10), and project descriptions. Qualitative content analysis was conducted to identify common themes across cases.

Results: Key facilitators included leveraging co-creator expertise, maintaining regular co-creator exchanges, ensuring an adaptive development process, carrying out a needs analysis and adopting a feasible design. Key challenges included resource constraints, difficult co-creator relationships, poor planning of co-creation, difficulties in recruiting and acknowledging co-creators, distributing workload fairly, and unclear expectations and skills/knowledge gap amongst co-creators.

Conclusions: Findings suggest that while the facilitators and challenges of digital health interventions reported here reflect previous literature relating to non-digital health interventions, digital settings present unique challenges, including effective integration of co-creators across iteration cycles and enabling collaboration across a large array of disciplines. Understanding facilitators and challenges in digital health intervention co-creation may help teams plan how to effectively include all relevant co-creators in the process. Future research should further explore how co-creation impacts digital health intervention adoption, user engagement, and long-term effectiveness.}},
  articleno    = {{105847}},
  author       = {{Anand-Kumar, Vinayak and Schreier, Margrit and Bakshi, Nehal and Messiha, Katrina and Longworth, Giuliana Raffaella and An, Qingfan and Angello, Danielle Marie and Chastin, Sebastien and Lippke, Sonia}},
  issn         = {{0033-3506}},
  journal      = {{PUBLIC HEALTH}},
  keywords     = {{Co-creation,Digital health,Digital health interventions,Public health,Qualitative research,Stakeholder engagement,COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH,PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH,ETHICAL CHALLENGES,CARE}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{7}},
  title        = {{Facilitators and challenges of co-creating digital public health interventions : a Health CASCADE multi-case exploratory study}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2025.105847}},
  volume       = {{247}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}

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