Developing the "Choosing Health" Digital Weight Loss and Maintenance Intervention: Intervention Mapping Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital health promotion programs tailored to the individual are a potential cost-effective and scalable solution to enable self-management and provide support to people with excess body weight. However, solutions that are widely accessible, personalized, and theory- and evidence-based are still limited.

Objective

This study aimed to develop a digital behavior change program, Choosing Health, that could identify modifiable predictors of weight loss and maintenance for each individual and use these to provide tailored support.

Methods

We applied an Intervention Mapping protocol to design the program. This systematic approach to develop theory- and evidence-based health promotion programs consisted of 6 steps: development of a logic model of the problem, a mo

SUBMITTER: Palacz-Poborczyk I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9627465 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature