A Chatbot-Based Coaching Intervention for Adolescents to Promote Life Skills: Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Adolescence is a challenging period, where youth face rapid changes as well as increasing socioemotional demands and threats, such as bullying and cyberbullying. Adolescent mental health and well-being can be best supported by providing effective coaching on life skills, such as coping strategies and protective factors. Interventions that take advantage of online coaching by means of chatbots, deployed on Web or mobile technology, may be a novel and more appealing way to support positive mental health for adolescents. OBJECTIVE:In this pilot study, we co-designed and conducted a formative evaluation of an online, life skills coaching, chatbot intervention, inspired by the positive technology approach, to promote mental well-being in adolescence. METHODS:We co-designed the first

SUBMITTER: Gabrielli S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7055808 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature