Preadolescent Students' Engagement With an mHealth Intervention Fostering Social Comparison for Health Behavior Change: Crossover Experimental Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Contemporary mobile health (mHealth) interventions use various behavior change techniques to promote healthier lifestyles. Social comparison is one of the techniques that is consensually agreed to be effective in engaging the general population in mHealth interventions. However, it is unclear how this strategy can be best used to engage preadolescents. Nevertheless, this strategy has great potential for this target audience, as they are particularly developing their social skills.

Objective

This study aims to evaluate how social comparison drives preadolescents' engagement with an mHealth app.

Methods

We designed a 12-week crossover experiment in which we studied 3 approaches to implementing behavior change via social comparison. This study was hosted in a

SUBMITTER: Nuijten RCY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8367116 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature