A systematic review of eHealth cancer prevention and control interventions: new technology, same methods and designs?
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There has been a recent surge of eHealth programs in cancer and other content areas, but few reviews have focused on the methodologies and designs employed in these studies. We conducted a systematic review of studies on eHealth interventions on cancer prevention and control published between 2001 and 2010 applying the Pragmatic Explanatory Continuum Indicator Summary (PRECIS) criteria and external validity components from the Reach Effectiveness Adoption Implementation Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework. We identified 113 studies that focused on cancer prevention and control of eHealth interventions. Most studies fell midway along the explanatory/pragmatic trial continuum, but few reported on various practical feasibility criteria for translation. Despite vast interest in cancer eHealth and the applied nature of this field, few studies considered key external validity issues. There is a need for use of alternative pragmatic study designs and transparent reporting of external validity components to produce more rapid and generalizable results.
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The 2013 review by Sanchez and colleagues applied implementation frameworks and called for more pragmatic trial designs.
“One of the earliest identified reviews, Sanchez and colleagues’ 2013 review, stands out in its application of implementation frameworks to their review of internet-based cancer prevention and control interventions.124 This review highlighted the need for more pragmatic trial designs”
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- Authors
- Sanchez, M. A., Rabin, B. A., Gaglio, B., Henton, M., Elzarrad, M. K., Purcell, P., & Glasgow, R. E.
- Affiliations
- National Cancer Institute (US)
- Kaiser Permanente (US)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sanchez, Michael A
- ORCID
- Venue
- Translational Behavioral Medicine
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2013-07-24
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 392-401
- ISSN
- 1613-9860 (ISSN-L)
- 1869-6716
- PMC
- PMC3830014
- OpenAlex
- W1963670831
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 0.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- Translational Behavioral Medicine (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHSN261200800001E)
- National Institutes of Health (#HHSN261200800001E, HHSN261200800001C)
- National Cancer Institute (HHSN261200800001E), P20CA137219)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Keywords
- digital health interventions, cancer prevention, cancer control, RE-AIM framework, generalizability, pragmatic trial design, clinical translation, study design reporting
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