Design Principles in mHealth Interventions for Sustainable Health Behavior Changes: Protocol for a Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In recent years, mHealth has increasingly been used to deliver behavioral interventions for disease prevention and self-management. Computing power in mHealth tools can provide unique functions beyond conventional interventions in provisioning personalized behavior change recommendations and delivering them in real time, supported by dialogue systems. However, design principles to incorporate these features in mHealth interventions have not been systematically evaluated.

Objective

The goal of this review is to identify best practices for the design of mHealth interventions targeting diet, physical activity, and sedentary behavior. We aim to identify and summarize the design characteristics of current mHealth tools with a focus on the following features: (1) person

SUBMITTER: Yang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9996417 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature