Exploring the factors for the implementation of digital health tools

Exploring the factors that facilitate and hinder the implementation of digital tools for self-management of long-term conditions within existing healthcare structures and pathways

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN16805986

Enrollment

Registered

2021-03-25

Start date

2021-04-12

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2021-04-19

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Conditions

General practitioners, commissioners, and long-term conditions specialist clinicians Not Applicable

Interventions

The study will involve semi-structured interviews exploring the factors that facilitate and hinder the implementation of digital tools for self-management of long-term conditions within existing healt

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. General Practitioners, Service commissioners, Long-term condition specialist clinicians in Wessex 2. Specialist clinicians supporting people with one or more of the following conditions: 2.1. Cardiovascular disease, including Atrial Fibrillation, Hypertension, Heart failure, Peripheral arterial disease, secondary prevention of coronary heart disease 2.2. Myocardial infarction: secondary prevention 2.3. Stroke/TIA 2.4. Asthma 2.5. COPD 2.6. Chronic kidney disease 2.7. Diabetes mellitus 2.8. Dementia 2.9. Epilepsy 2.10. Mental Health 2.11. Depression 2.12. Osteoporosis 2.13. Rheumatoid arthritis 2.14. Osteoarthritis 2.15. Obesity

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Specialist clinicians for conditions other than those listed above 2. GPs, Commissioners, Clinicians outside of the Wessex region

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Needs and preferences of GPs, commissioners, and long-term conditions specialist clinicians in relation to using and recommending digital health interventions and the perceived contextual factors facilitating and hindering the implementation of a digital self-management tool to support self-management to maintain for people with a long-term condition measured using semi-structured interviews at a single time point	—

Measure

Time frame

Needs and preferences of GPs, commissioners, and long-term conditions specialist clinicians in relation to using and recommending digital health interventions and the perceived contextual factors facilitating and hindering the implementation of a digital self-management tool to support self-management to maintain for people with a long-term condition measured using semi-structured interviews at a single time point

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Barriers, facilitators and needs of stakeholders to support the development, scale-up and implementation of a digital behaviour change intervention for maintaining physical activity measured using semi-structured interviews at a single time point	—

Countries

United Kingdom

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026