General Practitioners’ Perspectives on Digital Health Applications for Mental Disorders and Their Prescribing Behavior: Mixed Methods Study

Sandy Scheibe   ¹ , MPH ;   Sandra Salm   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Karola Mergenthal   ² , PhD ;   Deborah Engesser   ⁴ , MSc ;   Esther Stalujanis   ^{4, 5, 6} , PhD ;   Susanne Singer   ^{4, 7} , PhD ;   Pascal Kemmerer   ⁴ , MSc ;   Lena Dotzauer   ⁴ , PhD ;   Karen Voigt   ¹ , PhD

¹ Department of General Practice, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, TUD Dresden University of Technology, 01307 Dresden, Germany

² Institute of General Practice, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

³ Medical Psychology—Neuropsychology and Gender Studies and Center for Neuropsychological Diagnostics and Intervention (CeNDI), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany

⁴ Division of Epidemiology and Health Services Research, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

⁵ Department of Consultation-Liaison-Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

⁶ Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy–Methods and Approaches, Trier University, Trier, Germany

⁷ Department of Quality of Life in Oncology, Comprehensive Cancer Center Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (CCC-MV), University Medical Centre Rostock, Rostock, Germany