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@inproceedings{Sun:2025:ewic/BCSHCI2025.12,
author = {Sun, S and Cao, J and Zhang, Z and Calvo, RA},
doi = {ewic/BCSHCI2025.12},
pages = {120--130},
title = {Culturally Adapted Design of a Digital Mental Health Intervention to the Chinese context: A design case study},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/BCSHCI2025.12},
year = {2025}
}
TY - CPAPER
AB - Culture plays a crucial role in the design of mental health interventions since it influences how people seek assistance, participate in healthy behaviours, and how services are provided. It is believed that including cultural factors in the intervention will improve its relevance, acceptability, effectiveness, and sustainability. In this paper, we present the design process of a case study of adapting an evidence-proven Australian digital mental health intervention to the Chinese context, following culturally sensitive design frameworks including the ADAPT Model and the Ecological Validity Model. Through cultural adaptation, the localised intervention, namely (CloudEase), received a higher overall satisfaction score on the System Usability Scale compared to the literal translated version of the original intervention. Documenting each step of this process demonstrates a practical roadmap and guidelines for customising similar digital mental health interventions in Chinese or other cultural settings.
AU - Sun,S
AU - Cao,J
AU - Zhang,Z
AU - Calvo,RA
DO - ewic/BCSHCI2025.12
EP - 130
PY - 2025///
SP - 120
TI - Culturally Adapted Design of a Digital Mental Health Intervention to the Chinese context: A design case study
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/BCSHCI2025.12
ER -
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