Usage Metrics of Web-Based Interventions Evaluated in Randomized Controlled Trials: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The evaluation of web-based interventions (defined as an intervention that can be downloaded or accessed on the internet through a web browser) in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) has increased over the past two decades. Little is known about how participants' use of the intervention is measured, reported, and analyzed in these studies. OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to review the evaluation of web-based interventions in RCTs, assessing study characteristics and the methods used to record, and adjust for, intervention usage. METHODS:A systematic review of the literature was undertaken to identify all published reports of RCTs that involved a web-based intervention. A random sample of 100 published trials was selected for detailed data extraction. Information on trial characterist

SUBMITTER: Koneska E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7193439 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature