Expected Competencies and Personal Attributes of Digital Health Navigators to Support Digital Mental Health Care: Focus Group and Interview Study With Patients and Health Care Professionals

Laura Freisberg   ^{1, 2 *} , MSc ;   Eva Meier-Diedrich   ^{1, 2 *} , MSc ;   Martin Heinze   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Julia Schönbeck   ^{1, 2} , BSc ;   Darja Schubert   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Justin Speck   ^{1, 2} , BSc ;   Gillian Strudwick   ^{3, 4} , PhD ;   John Torous   ⁵ , MD ;   Julian Schwarz   ^{1, 2} , MD

¹ Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Neuruppin, Germany

² Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Immanuel Hospital Rüdersdorf, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Rüdersdorf bei Berlin, Germany

³ Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵ Division of Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

*these authors contributed equally