Engagement in a diabetes self-management website: usage patterns and generalizability of program use.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increased access to the Internet and the availability of efficacious eHealth interventions offer great promise for assisting adults with diabetes to change and maintain health behaviors. A key concern is whether levels of engagement in Internet programs are sufficient to promote and sustain behavior change.

Objective

This paper used automated data from an ongoing Internet-based diabetes self-management intervention study to calculate various indices of website engagement. The multimedia website involved goal setting, action planning, and self-monitoring as well as offering features such as "Ask an Expert" to enhance healthy eating, physical activity, and medication adherence. We also investigated participant characteristics associated with website engagement and t

SUBMITTER: Glasgow RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3221359 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature