Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-13-2025
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Healthcare workers (HCWs) report overwhelming demands and experience crisis levels of burnout and unique challenges that further impair their mental health. Promotion of mental health among HCWs using information and communication technology (ICT) has received little empirical research attention and interventions for improving mental health resilience in HCWs are not well established.
DESIGN: Scoping review to map existing evidence and identify gaps for future research regarding the main barriers and facilitators of the acceptance of ICT-based interventions for improving resilience and mental health among HCWs working in all healthcare settings.
METHODS AND ANALYSIS: This protocol was developed in accordance with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines. A comprehensive bibliographic search will be conducted between October 2024 and October 2025 in Pubmed, Web of Science, PsycINFO, Scopus, Cochrane Library and CINAHL Ultimate (MedicLatina, Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection), with the assistance of a qualified research librarian, to retrieve studies describing data on the main barriers and facilitators to the acceptance of ICT-based interventions for improving resilience and mental health among HCWs working in healthcare settings. There will be no restrictions based on date of publication or language. Inclusion and exclusion criteria will be defined for each element of the PICO(D) framework, and both quantitative and qualitative data will be extracted. Quality will be assessed using the mixed methods assessment tool. Two independent investigators will perform the eligibility assessment and data extraction, and any disagreements will be resolved by a third reviewer. The main results will be narratively synthesised and analysed.
ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Since secondary data will be analysed, no ethical approval is required. The results will be disseminated through publications subject to peer review.
REGISTRATION: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/5R36Q.
Recommended Citation
Alves, Elisabete; Rodrigues, Ricardo; Fonseca, César; Lopes, Manuel; Faria, Inês; Dalkner, Nina; Barach, Paul; Folkvord, Frans; Ingebretsen Carlson, Jim; Reininghaus, Eva; Wessa, Michele; Prinzellner, Yvonne; Leung, Vanessa; Turk, Eva; and de Pinho, Lara Guedes, "What Are the Barriers and Facilitators to the Acceptance of Information and Communication Technology-Based Interventions for Improving Resilience and Mental Health of Healthcare Workers: A Scoping Review Protocol" (2025). College of Population Health Faculty Papers. Paper 231.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/healthpolicyfaculty/231
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Comments
This article is the author’s final published version in BMJ Open, Volume 15, Issue 11, 2025, Article number e097330.
The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097330. Copyright © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2025.