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Digital Health Technology to Enhance Adolescent and Young Adult Clinical Preventive Services: Affordances and Challenges.

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Wong, CA; Madanay, F; Ozer, EM; Harris, SK; Moore, M; Master, SO; Moreno, M; Weitzman, ER
Published in: J Adolesc Health
August 2020

The lives of adolescents and young adults (AYAs) have become increasingly intertwined with technology. In this scoping review, studies about digital health tools are summarized in relation to five key affordances-social, cognitive, identity, emotional, and functional. Consideration of how a platform or tool exemplifies these affordances may help clinicians and researchers achieve the goal of using digital health technology to enhance clinical preventive services for AYAs. Across these five affordances, considerable research and development activity exists accompanied by signs of high promise, although the literature primarily reflects demonstration studies of acceptability or small sample experiments to discern impact. Digital health technology may afford an array of functions, yet its potential to enhance AYA clinical preventive services is met with three key challenges. The challenges discussed in this review are the disconnectedness between digital health tools and clinical care, threats to AYA privacy and security, and difficulty identifying high-value digital health products for AYA. The data presented are synthesized in calls to action for the use of digital health technology to enhance clinical preventive services and to ensure that the digital health ecosystem is relevant, effective, safe, and purposed for meeting the health needs of AYA.

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J Adolesc Health

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EISSN

1879-1972

Publication Date

August 2020

Volume

67

Issue

2S

Start / End Page

S24 / S33

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Young Adult
  • Telemedicine
  • Public Health
  • Preventive Health Services
  • Humans
  • Biomedical Technology
  • Adolescent
  • 52 Psychology
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
 

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Wong, C. A., Madanay, F., Ozer, E. M., Harris, S. K., Moore, M., Master, S. O., … Weitzman, E. R. (2020). Digital Health Technology to Enhance Adolescent and Young Adult Clinical Preventive Services: Affordances and Challenges. J Adolesc Health, 67(2S), S24–S33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.10.018
Wong, Charlene A., Farrah Madanay, Elizabeth M. Ozer, Sion K. Harris, Megan Moore, Samuel O. Master, Megan Moreno, and Elissa R. Weitzman. “Digital Health Technology to Enhance Adolescent and Young Adult Clinical Preventive Services: Affordances and Challenges.J Adolesc Health 67, no. 2S (August 2020): S24–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.10.018.
Wong CA, Madanay F, Ozer EM, Harris SK, Moore M, Master SO, et al. Digital Health Technology to Enhance Adolescent and Young Adult Clinical Preventive Services: Affordances and Challenges. J Adolesc Health. 2020 Aug;67(2S):S24–33.
Wong, Charlene A., et al. “Digital Health Technology to Enhance Adolescent and Young Adult Clinical Preventive Services: Affordances and Challenges.J Adolesc Health, vol. 67, no. 2S, Aug. 2020, pp. S24–33. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.10.018.
Wong CA, Madanay F, Ozer EM, Harris SK, Moore M, Master SO, Moreno M, Weitzman ER. Digital Health Technology to Enhance Adolescent and Young Adult Clinical Preventive Services: Affordances and Challenges. J Adolesc Health. 2020 Aug;67(2S):S24–S33.
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Published In

J Adolesc Health

DOI

EISSN

1879-1972

Publication Date

August 2020

Volume

67

Issue

2S

Start / End Page

S24 / S33

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Young Adult
  • Telemedicine
  • Public Health
  • Preventive Health Services
  • Humans
  • Biomedical Technology
  • Adolescent
  • 52 Psychology
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences