Published on in Vol 9 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/73281, first published .
Lessons Learned from Co-Designing a Digital Health App for Foster Youth: Development and Usability Study

Lessons Learned from Co-Designing a Digital Health App for Foster Youth: Development and Usability Study

Lessons Learned from Co-Designing a Digital Health App for Foster Youth: Development and Usability Study

Johanna B Folk   1 , PhD ;   Juan Carlos Gonzalez   1, 2 , PhD ;   Margareth V Del Cid   1 , PhD ;   Elizabeth McBride   1 , BA ;   Tylia Lundberg   1 , BA ;   Alison Czopp   1 , MSW ;   Ifunanya Ezimora   1, 3 , BA ;   Lisa R Fortuna   4 , MD, MPH, MDiv ;   Marina Tolou-Shams   1 , PhD

1 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

2 Department of Learning and Teaching, School of Leadership and Education Sciences, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States

3 San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego, CA, United States

4 Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Johanna B Folk, PhD
  • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine
  • University of California, San Francisco
  • 1001 Potrero Ave
  • San Francisco, CA 94110
  • United States
  • Phone: 1 415-602-9521
  • Email: Johanna.folk@ucsf.edu