Associations Between Behavior Change Techniques and Engagement With Mobile Health Apps: Protocol for a Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digitally enabled care along with an emphasis on self-management of health is steadily growing. Mobile health apps provide a promising means of supporting health behavior change; however, engagement with them is often poor and evidence of their impact on health outcomes is lacking. As engagement is a key prerequisite to health behavior change, it is essential to understand how engagement with mobile health apps and their target health behaviors can be better supported. Although the importance of engagement is emphasized strongly in the literature, the understanding of how different components of engagement are associated with specific techniques that aim to change behaviors is lacking.

Objective

The purpose of this systematic review protocol is to provide a synthe

SUBMITTER: Milne-Ives M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9006128 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature