Mobile and wireless technologies in health behavior and the potential for intensively adaptive interventions
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Recent advances in mobile and wireless technologies have made real-time assessments of health behaviors and their influences possible with minimal respondent burden. These tech-enabled real-time assessments provide the basis for intensively adaptive interventions (IAIs). Evidence of such studies that adjust interventions based on real-time inputs is beginning to emerge. Although IAIs are promising, the development of intensively adaptive algorithms generate new research questions, and the intensive longitudinal data produced by IAIs require new methodologies and analytic approaches. Research considerations and future directions for IAIs in health behavior research are provided.
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- Authors
- Riley, W. T., Serrano, K. J., Nilsen, W., & Atienza, A. A.
- Affiliations
- National Cancer Institute (UA)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Riley, William T
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-10
- Volume
- 5
- Pages
- 67-71
- ISSN
- 2352-250X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4465113
- OpenAlex
- W2027315866
- Cited by
- 76
- References
- 37
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- FWCI
- 2.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Current Opinion in Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (Z99 CA999999)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Keywords
- mobile health, wireless technology, health behavior, real-time assessment, intensive longitudinal data, adaptive algorithms, behavioral interventions
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