Operationalizing Engagement With an Interpretation Bias Smartphone App Intervention: Case Series.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Engagement with mental health smartphone apps is an understudied but critical construct to understand in the pursuit of improved efficacy.

Objective

This study aimed to examine engagement as a multidimensional construct for a novel app called HabitWorks. HabitWorks delivers a personalized interpretation bias intervention and includes various strategies to enhance engagement such as human support, personalization, and self-monitoring.

Methods

We examined app use in a pilot study (n=31) and identified 5 patterns of behavioral engagement: consistently low, drop-off, adherent, high diary, and superuser.

Results

We present a series of cases (5/31, 16%) from this trial to illustrate the patterns of behavioral engagement and cognitive and affective engageme

SUBMITTER: Ramadurai R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9434389 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature