Nurses’ Engagement in Digital Health Clinical Trials Using Unobtrusive Monitoring Technologies: Constructivist Grounded Theory Study

Xiyi Wang   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Zhaozhang Sun   ^{3, 4} , PhD ;   Geraldine Lee   ⁵ , PhD ;   Patricia C Dykes   ⁶ , PhD ;   Yun Hu   ¹ , PhD ;   Wenfang Mu   ⁷ , MSN ;   Chen Zhang   ⁷ , BSN ;   Zhiguo Zou   ^{7 *} , PhD ;   Li Xu   ^{2 *} , MSN

¹ School of Nursing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

² Department of Nursing, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

³ Department of Applied Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

⁴ Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding Behaviour (CENTRE-UB), Economic and Social Research Council, Department of Applied Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

⁵ Catherine McAuley School of Nursing & Midwifery, Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

⁶ Centre for Data Science, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

⁷ Department of Cardiology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

*these authors contributed equally