A Framework for the Study of Complex mHealth Interventions in Diverse Cultural Settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To facilitate decision-making capacity between options of care under real-life service conditions, clinical trials must be pragmatic to evaluate mobile health (mHealth) interventions under the variable conditions of health care settings with a wide range of participants. The mHealth interventions require changes in the behavior of patients and providers, creating considerable complexity and ambiguity related to causal chains. Process evaluations of the implementation are necessary to shed light on the range of unanticipated effects an intervention may have, what the active ingredients in everyday practice are, how they exert their effect, and how these may vary among recipients or between sites.

Objective

Building on the CONSORT-EHEALTH (Consolidated Standards of

SUBMITTER: Maar MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5418524 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature