Developing a digital intervention for cancer survivors: an evidence-, theory- and person-based approach.

ABSTRACT: This paper illustrates a rigorous approach to developing digital interventions using an evidence-, theory- and person-based approach. Intervention planning included a rapid scoping review that identified cancer survivors' needs, including barriers and facilitators to intervention success. Review evidence (N = 49 papers) informed the intervention's Guiding Principles, theory-based behavioural analysis and logic model. The intervention was optimised based on feedback on a prototype intervention through interviews (N = 96) with cancer survivors and focus groups with NHS staff and cancer charity workers (N = 31). Interviews with cancer survivors highlighted barriers to engagement, such as concerns about physical activity worsening fatigue. Focus groups highlighted concerns

SUBMITTER: Bradbury K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6718425 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature