Background: Mobile health apps stand as one possible means of improving evidence-based mental health interventions for youth. However, a better understanding of youth and provider perspectives is necessary to support widespread implementation. Objective: The objective of this research was to explore both youth and provider perspectives on using mobile apps to enhance evidence-based clinical care, with an emphasis on gathering perspectives on behavior-tracking apps. Methods: Inductive qualitative analysis was conducted on data obtained from semistructured interviews held with 10 youths who received psychotherapy and 12 mental health care providers who conducted therapy with youths aged 13-26 years. Interviews were independently coded by multiple coders and consensus meetings were held to establish reliability. Results: During the interviews, the youths and providers broadly agreed on the benefits of behavior tracking and believed that tracking via app could be more enjoyable and accessible. Providers and youths also shared similar concerns that negative emotions and user burden could limit app usage. Participants also suggested potential app features that, if implemented, would help meet the clinical needs of providers and support long-term use among youth. Such features included having a pleasant user interface, reminders for clients, and graphical output of data to clients and providers. Conclusions: Youths and providers explained that the integration of mobile health into psychotherapy has the potential to make treatment, particularly behavior tracking, easy and more accessible. However, both groups had concerns about the increased burden that could be placed on the clients and providers.

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青年和提供者对行为跟踪移动应用程序的观点：定性分析

背景：移动健康应用程序是改善青少年循证心理健康干预措施的一种可能方法。但是，必须对青年和提供者的观点有更好的了解，以支持广泛的实施。目的：本研究的目的是探讨青年人和提供者对使用移动应用程序增强循证临床护理的观点，重点是收集关于行为跟踪应用程序的观点。方法：归纳性定性分析是根据从半结构化访谈中获得的数据进行的，该访谈是对10名接受过心理治疗的青年和12名接受13-26岁青年进行心理治疗的心理保健提供者进行的。采访由多个编码员独立编码，并举行了共识会议以建立可靠性。结果：在访谈中，年轻人和提供者广泛同意行为跟踪的好处，并认为通过应用程序进行跟踪可能会更愉快和更容易。提供者和年轻人也有类似的担忧，即负面情绪和用户负担可能会限制应用程序的使用。参与者还提出了潜在的应用程序功能，这些功能如果得到实施，将有助于满足提供者的临床需求并支持年轻人中的长期使用。这些功能包括具有令人愉悦的用户界面，客户端提醒以及向客户端和提供者的数据图形输出。结论：年轻人和提供者解释说，将移动医疗与心理治疗相结合有可能使治疗（尤其是行为跟踪）变得更容易，更容易获得。但是，两个团体都担心会给客户和提供者带来更多负担。