Conceptualising engagement with digital behaviour change interventions: a systematic review using principles from critical interpretive synthesis.

ABSTRACT: "Engagement" with digital behaviour change interventions (DBCIs) is considered important for their effectiveness. Evaluating engagement is therefore a priority; however, a shared understanding of how to usefully conceptualise engagement is lacking. This review aimed to synthesise literature on engagement to identify key conceptualisations and to develop an integrative conceptual framework involving potential direct and indirect influences on engagement and relationships between engagement and intervention effectiveness. Four electronic databases (Ovid MEDLINE, PsycINFO, ISI Web of Knowledge, ScienceDirect) were searched in November 2015. We identified 117 articles that met the inclusion criteria: studies employing experimental or non-experimental designs with adult participants explicitly

SUBMITTER: Perski O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5526809 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature