Dominguez-Rodriguez Alejandro, De La Rosa-Gómez Anabel
Health Sciences Area, Valencian International University, Valencia, Spain.
Faculty of Higher Studies Iztacala, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
Front Digit Health. 2022 Jun 2;4:866155. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2022.866155. eCollection 2022.
Global technological progress has generated alternatives for psychological assistance, both for the evaluation and for the treatment of different emotional disorders. Evidence suggests that Internet-based treatments are effective for the treatment of anxiety and depression disorders. However, in Latin America online treatments are still scarce compared to developed countries and have similar problems as developed countries, such as high dropout rate. One possible solution to help decrease the dropout rate is to design and develop online interventions based on the needs and characteristics of the users. The user-centered design (UCD) is a fundamental concept to develop successful online interventions. The objective of this article is to provide a perspective overview on how UCD could improve the impact of self-applied psychological interventions in low- or middle-income countries in Latin America; however this proposal can also be applied in low- and middle-income countries in other regions of the world. The literature on UCD has demonstrated its efficacy when properly applied in online interventions; however, it is not common to see how this methodology has been applied in research in online interventions, and regarding Latin America, this is even more scarce with a very limited number of articles implementing the principles of UCD.
全球技术进步为心理援助带来了新的选择，无论是在不同情绪障碍的评估还是治疗方面。有证据表明，基于互联网的治疗方法对焦虑症和抑郁症的治疗是有效的。然而，与发达国家相比，拉丁美洲的在线治疗仍然很少，并且存在与发达国家类似的问题，比如高辍学率。帮助降低辍学率的一个可能解决方案是根据用户的需求和特点设计并开发在线干预措施。以用户为中心的设计（UCD）是开发成功的在线干预措施的一个基本概念。本文的目的是提供一个关于UCD如何提高拉丁美洲低收入或中等收入国家自我应用心理干预效果的前瞻性概述；然而，这一建议也可应用于世界其他地区的低收入和中等收入国家。关于UCD的文献已经证明，在在线干预中正确应用时它是有效的；然而，很少看到这种方法在在线干预研究中的应用情况，而对于拉丁美洲来说，这种情况更为罕见，实施UCD原则的文章数量非常有限。
