Identifying Frameworks for Validation and Monitoring of Consensual Behavioral Intervention Technologies: Narrative Review.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Changing health behaviors, such as smoking, unhealthy eating, inactivity, and alcohol abuse, may have a greater impact on population health than any curative strategy. One of the suggested strategies is the use of behavioral intervention technologies (BITs). They open up new opportunities in the area of prevention and therapy and have begun to show benefits in the durable change of health behaviors in patients or those at risk. A consensual and international paradigm was adopted by health authorities for drugs 50 years ago. It guides their development from research units to their authorization and surveillance. BITs' generalization brings into question their upstream evaluation before being placed on the market and their downstream monitoring once on the market; this is especial

SUBMITTER: Carbonnel F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6822061 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature