Eggleston Melissa, Jones Emily P, Khan Nashmia, Romani William A, McQuillan Kyle, Otero Jessica, Chen Elizabeth
College of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Digit Health. 2025 Jul 28;11:20552076251360925. doi: 10.1177/20552076251360925. eCollection 2025 Jan-Dec.
Since psychological trauma and the use of technology are common in society, designers and researchers have been applying a trauma-informed (TI) approach to the digital design of technology. A TI approach was developed by the social work field to better serve those who have been through trauma. The purpose of this scoping review was to determine the current state of scholarly research on TI digital design and technology.
Searches were conducted in five databases for peer-reviewed articles about the design of digital interventions using TI approaches, published from 2000 to 2023. One hundred and eighteen studies were included and examined for their use of TI approaches, settings, types of digital design, and types of organizations and practitioners designing.
Studies and interventions are not explicitly or methodically applying a TI approach to digital design, despite hopes to serve populations with significant trauma (e.g., life-threatening cancer survivors) in various settings. Efforts are sometimes consciously made that align with TI principles (e.g., safety), but other times there's no accounting for trauma and its impacts in the design of interventions.
The review indicates that there is a lack of using the evidence-based framework of a TI approach in digital design.
由于心理创伤和技术应用在社会中很常见，设计师和研究人员一直在将创伤知情（TI）方法应用于技术的数字设计。TI方法由社会工作领域开发，以更好地服务于经历过创伤的人群。本范围综述的目的是确定关于TI数字设计和技术的学术研究现状。
在五个数据库中检索2000年至2023年发表的关于使用TI方法进行数字干预设计的同行评审文章。纳入了118项研究，并对其TI方法的使用、环境、数字设计类型以及设计的组织和从业者类型进行了审查。
尽管希望在各种环境中为有重大创伤的人群（如危及生命的癌症幸存者）提供服务，但研究和干预措施并未明确或系统地将TI方法应用于数字设计。有时会有意识地做出符合TI原则（如安全性）的努力，但其他时候在干预设计中并未考虑创伤及其影响。
该综述表明，在数字设计中缺乏使用TI方法的循证框架。
