Recruitment, Engagement, Experiences, and Self-Reported Changes in a Digital Patient Activation Intervention to Improve Hemodialysis Session Stability: Mixed Methods Study

Megan Wickens   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Jennifer Bragg-Gresham   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Rajiv Saran   ^{2, 3} , MD ;   Meera Tandan   ³ , PhD ;   Marissa Argentina   ⁴ , MSW ;   Dinesh Chatoth   ⁵ , MD ;   Kelli Collins Damron   ⁴ , MSW ;   Michael Heung   ^{2, 3} , MD ;   Sarah Krein   ^{6, 7} , PhD ;   Vu Le   ⁸ , MS ;   Ana Laura Licon   ³ , MS ;   Kara Eggebrecht   ¹ , BS ;   Barbara Murphy   ⁵ , BSN ;   Alicia Zerkle   ⁵ , BS ;   Kai Zheng   ⁹ , PhD ;   Tiffany C Veinot   ^{1, 10, 11 *} , MLS, PhD

¹ School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

² Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, School of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

³ Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

⁴ National Kidney Foundation, New York, NY, United States

⁵ Fresenius Medical Care (United States), Waltham, MA, United States

⁶ Center for Clinical Management Research, Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

⁸ Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

⁹ School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

¹⁰ Department of Learning Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

¹¹ Department of Health Behavior and Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

*these authors contributed equally