Monitoring intervention fidelity of a lifestyle behavioral intervention delivered through telehealth.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Technology-based lifestyle behavioral interventions (i.e., telehealth, mHealth, eHealth, and/or digital health) are becoming an alternative standard of care and possess several advantages over traditional clinical settings such as convenience, cost, and the ability to tailor plans and feedback to a participant's individual needs. These technology-based interventions also present unique challenges to intervention fidelity due to extra elements involved in executing the intervention. Intervention fidelity monitoring is essential to ensure internal and external validity, yet the development and utilization of fidelity protocols is under-reported in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to describe the intervention fidelity protocol for the 24-START study, a behavior

SUBMITTER: Sineath A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5583039 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature