Title
User Experiences of a Mobile Mental Well-Being Intervention Among Pregnant Women.
Abstract
Postnatal depression affects 10 to 15 percent of women after childbirth. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is associated with better mental well-being and lower levels of depression. Digital ACT solutions enable providing potentially cost-effective access to interventions. This paper reports the user experiences of an ACT-based mobile mental well-being intervention among pregnant women. Twenty-nine mothers were recruited to a 6-month study. Usage rates were collected via usage logs and user experiences via questionnaires and interviews. The total usage time of the application was about 53 min per user. The application was perceived easy to use. The most common barriers of use were: content being perceived irrelevant due to the lack of tailoring for pregnancy; lack of time; and not having the application in the personal mobile phone. The application was perceived useful by women with problems and concerns with their pregnancy, a potential target group in future.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-32270-4_14
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Postnatal depression,Acceptance and commitment therapy,Intervention,mHealth,Well-being,User experience
Conference
604
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1865-0929
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Salla Muuraiskangas131.77
Elina M. Mattila2282.80
Pipsa Kyttälä300.34
Mirva Koreasalo400.34
Raimo Lappalainen5989.83