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A Development and Evaluation Process for mHealth Interventions: Examples From New Zealand
Abstract
The authors established a process for the development and testing of mobile phone-based health interventions that has been implemented in several mHealth interventions developed in New Zealand. This process involves a series of steps: conceptualization, formative research to inform the development, pretesting content, pilot study, pragmatic randomized controlled trial, and further qualitative research to inform improvement or implementation. Several themes underlie the entire process, including the integrity of the underlying behavior change theory, allowing for improvements on the basis of participant feedback, and a focus on implementation from the start. The strengths of this process are the involvement of the target audience in the development stages and the use of rigorous research methods to determine effectiveness. The limitations include the time required and potentially a less formalized and randomized approach than some other processes. This article aims to describe the steps and themes in the mHealth development process, using the examples of a mobile phone video messaging smoking cessation intervention and a mobile phone multimedia messaging depression prevention intervention, to stimulate discussion on these and other potential methods.
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“Interventions were delivered in a variety of settings (e.g. inpatient, outpatient clinics and home-based settings) and targeted a wide range of conditions, such as mental health conditions [28, 30, 35, 40, 47], stroke [31, 36, 39], cancer [29, 32, 33, 37, 42] and other chronic illnesses [25, 34, 38].”
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“and one study conducted in New Zealand introduced and applied new guidelines specifically for the development of mobile health interventions [47].”
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“Optimisation strategies applying qualitative methods tended to explore acceptability and feasibility issues [26, 30, 32, 34, 39, 47, 48].”
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“Several studies employed well-established qualitative methods including interviews or focus groups with providers and recipients or relevant stakeholders [26, 30, 32, 34, 39, 47, 48] and observations and consensus processes including researchers, patients and clinical experts [31].”
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“The current literature provides some guidance on how to adapt mobile phone-based interventions (for use in countries wherein it was not specifically designed), acknowledging the essential role of the end user in this process [24,46,47].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Whittaker, R., Merry, S., Dorey, E., & Maddison, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Auckland (NZ)
- Corresponding author
- Whittaker, Robyn
- Venue
- Journal of Health Communication
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2012-05-02
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- sup1
- Pages
- 11-21
- ISSN
- 1081-0730 (ISSN-L)
- 1087-0415
- OpenAlex
- W2123284020
- Cited by
- 263
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 30.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Health Communication (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Keywords
- mobile health intervention, formative research, pilot study, pragmatic randomized controlled trial, behaviour change theory, participant feedback, implementation, user participation, smoking cessation, depression prevention, video messaging, multimedia messaging
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Depression, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, New Zealand, Pilot Projects, Research Design, Video Recording, Program Evaluation, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Smoking Cessation, Program Development, Focus Groups, Telemedicine, Multimedia, Qualitative Research, Cell Phone, Young Adult, Health Communication
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