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Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress
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The potential advantages of using the Internet to deliver self-care and behavior-change programs are well recognized. An aging population combined with the increasing prevalence of long-term conditions and more effective medical interventions place financial strain on all health care systems. Web-based interventions have the potential to combine the tailored approach of face-to-face interventions with the scalability of public health interventions that have low marginal costs per additional user. From a patient perspective, Web-based interventions can be highly attractive because they are convenient, easily accessible, and can maintain anonymity/privacy. Recognition of this potential has led to research in developing and evaluating Web-based interventions for self-management of long-term conditions and behavior change. Numerous systematic reviews have confirmed the effectiveness of some Web-based interventions, but a number of unanswered questions still remain. This paper reviews the progress made in developing and evaluating Web-based interventions and considers three challenging areas: equity, effectiveness, and implementation. The impact of Web-based interventions on health inequalities remains unclear. Although some have argued that such interventions can increase access to underserved communities, there is evidence to suggest that reliance on Web-based interventions may exacerbate health inequalities by excluding those on the "wrong" side of the digital divide. Although most systematic reviews have found a positive effect on outcomes of interest, effect sizes tend to be small and not all interventions are successful. Further work is needed to determine why some interventions work and others do not. This includes considering the "active ingredients" or mechanism of action of these complex interventions and the context in which they are used. Are there certain demographic, psychological, or clinical factors that promote or inhibit success? Are some behaviors or some clinical problems more amenable to change by computer-based interventions? Equally problematic is the issue of implementation and integration of such programs into routine clinical practice. Many eHealth projects end when the research is concluded and fail to become part of mainstream clinical care. One way of addressing these challenges is to apply the Medical Research Council framework for developing, evaluating, and implementing complex interventions. This includes having a strong theoretical foundation, developing a proposed mechanism or pathway of action, ensuring that the evaluation adequately reflects this proposed pathway, and considering implementation from the beginning of the development process.
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This narrative review examines the potential, pitfalls, and progress of Web-based interventions for behavior change and self-management, focusing on three unresolved challenges: equity, effectiveness, and implementation. It argues that applying the Medical Research Council framework for complex interventions, together with greater use of theory, could help realize the field's potential.
Key findings
- Web-based interventions have potential advantages in reach, accessibility, tailoring, and low marginal cost per user, but effect sizes in systematic reviews "tend to be small and not all interventions are successful."
- Equity is unresolved: Internet penetration in 2011 was 11% in Africa, 24% in Asia, and 36% in Latin America/Caribbean; within the UK, access was 99% among households earning ≥£40,000 versus 43% at ≤£12,500, 95% among university graduates versus 31% among those who left school without graduating, <40% among those aged 65+, and 41% among those with work-limiting health problems or disabilities.
- Effectiveness varies by outcome: reviews support effects for smoking cessation, alcohol reduction, safer sex, and physical activity, but a UK HTA review found little or no impact of adaptive e-learning on dietary behaviors and no impact on weight loss or BMI; CCBT is effective across mild-to-moderate depression, anxiety, OCD, and phobias, whereas non-CCBT emotional interventions (social networks, personal stories) lack robust evidence of benefit or harm.
- A meta-analysis of ~85 studies covering >45,000 participants found that more extensive use of theory (particularly the Theory of Planned Behavior) and certain behavior-change techniques (eg, stress management, goal setting, action planning) were associated with larger effect sizes.
Methods
- Design: narrative review/commentary, not a systematic review; no search strategy, inclusion criteria, or formal synthesis method is reported.
- Scope: synthesizes existing systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and trials across self-management of long-term conditions, health promotion, and mental health, plus policy and implementation literature.
- Analysis: thematic discussion organized around equity, effectiveness (cognitive, behavioral, emotional outcomes, mechanism of action, cost-effectiveness), and implementation, with recommendations framed by the MRC complex interventions framework and normalization process theory.
Limitations
- The paper states that a number of unanswered questions remain, including why some interventions work and others do not, what the "active ingredients" and effective dose are, and which demographic, psychological, or clinical factors promote or inhibit success; data on user characteristics and adherence are described as "confusing and contradictory."
- The paper states there is a paucity of data on actual cost-effectiveness of Internet interventions and a paucity of comparative data on online peer-support services.
- Evident from the text (not framed as a limitation by the author): this is a single-author narrative review without a documented systematic search or quality appraisal, so selection of cited evidence may be non-exhaustive and subject to author perspective.
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“Our own research on Web-based interventions supports these concerns about equity, with disproportionately high numbers of users having a university degree [29,30].”
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“Unfortunately, outside of these carefully designed and executed studies, there is evidence that Web-based interventions tend to be used by more advantaged groups.”
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“Moreover, the use of multimedia (eg, video, audio, and graphics) allows complex information to be presented in a simple format comprehensible even to those with low literacy skills.”
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“In other words, those with the most need have the least access.”
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“Many eHealth projects end when the research is concluded and fail to become part of mainstream clinical care.”
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“many interventions have not been widely disseminated.”
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“Access to the Internet increases with income and education.”
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“Web-based interventions can improve knowledge.”
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“there have been a number of systematic reviews and meta-analyses that have demonstrated improvements in knowledge in users of Web-based interventions [31,34].”
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“Looking first at the relatively simple question of access to the Internet, it is clear that there are considerable inequities in access, both between and within countries.”
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- Not checked yetcites [15] Internet World Stats: Usage and Population Statistics201112312012-08-11Internet usage statistics: the Internet big picturehttp://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm69q5RTCsT
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“Web-based interventions have the potential to combine the tailored approach of face-to-face interventions with the scalability of public health interventions that have low marginal costs per additional user.”
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“Delivering behavior change interventions over the Internet is appealing because this could combine the scalability of public health interventions with the effectiveness of personalized, individually tailored interventions.”
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“there is evidence to suggest that reliance on Web-based interventions may exacerbate health inequalities by excluding those on the “wrong” side of the digital divide.”
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“An alternative view is that widespread use of Web-based interventions will widen health inequalities between those on either side of the “digital divide” [21].”
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“Although most systematic reviews have found a positive effect on outcomes of interest, effect sizes tend to be small and not all interventions are successful.”
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“Internet penetration in Africa was estimated at 11%, 24% in Asia, and 36% in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2011 [15].”
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- Not checked yetcites [15] Internet World Stats: Usage and Population Statistics201112312012-08-11Internet usage statistics: the Internet big picturehttp://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm69q5RTCsT
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“Web-based interventions could have two opposing impacts on health inequalities.”
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“The behaviors of interest tend to be the same across both populations (ie, healthy eating, physical activity, smoking cessation, moderating alcohol consumption, and practicing safer sex), but the levels of motivation may differ.”
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“Interactivity is a major advantage of the Internet, both for users interacting with websites and entering personal information that allows the site to tailor the information or services offered to that specific user, and for users interacting with one another through the Web.”
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“In 2011, Internet access among those aged 65 or over was <40%, and among those with health problems or disabilities that limited the kind or amount of work able to be done, access was 41% [28].”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Pitfalls > Equity
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“From a patient perspective, Web-based interventions can be highly attractive because they are convenient, easily accessible, and can maintain anonymity/privacy.”
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“Many of these potential benefits have yet to be realized.”
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“An almost unlimited amount of information can be stored on the Web, yet it can be presented in an accessible and comprehensible format, in bite-size chunks, using video, graphics, and audio, and is available at the moment of need.”
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“Although initial results are promising, further work is needed because many of the trials have been relatively small [44-47].”
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“Numerous systematic reviews have confirmed the effectiveness of some Web-based interventions, but a number of unanswered questions still remain.”
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“External constraints that may prevent health-promoting activities include poor housing, poor working conditions, and poverty [24].”
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“Of greater concern, older people and people with disabilities or long-term illnesses are less likely to have Internet access.”
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“In 2011, Internet access among people with household incomes of £40,000 or more was 99%, whereas it was only 43% among people with household incomes of £12,500 or less (half the national median income).”
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“Moreover, access is necessary—but not sufficient—for benefiting from Web-based interventions.”
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“Similarly, among people with a university degree, access was 95%, whereas access was only 31% for those people who left school without graduating.”
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“Some researchers have undertaken impressive work, demonstrating that Internet interventions can be used by and can benefit severely disadvantaged groups, including homeless drug users [25], single teenage mothers [26], and vulnerable elderly people [27].”
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“An alternative approach has been the use of computerized cognitive behavioral therapy (CCBT), which was first developed for use with people experiencing mental health problems such as depression and anxiety [42,43].”
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“The Internet is now widely available in the developed world, with more than 90% penetration in Sweden, approximately 80% penetration in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States, and approximately 60% in Europe as a whole [15].”
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- Not checked yetcites [15] Internet World Stats: Usage and Population Statistics201112312012-08-11Internet usage statistics: the Internet big picturehttp://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm69q5RTCsT
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“Changing dietary behaviors appears to be more challenging, with a recent systematic review for the UK Health Technology Agency finding little or no impact of adaptive e-learning technologies across a wide range of dietary behaviors and no impact on weight loss or body mass index [39].”
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“Although small changes in behavioral outcomes have been demonstrated, these have not converted into improved clinical outcomes [31].”
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“These two forms of interactivity can be used to provide formal behavior change support, decision support, and peer support.”
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“The impact of Web-based interventions on health inequalities remains unclear.”
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“Internal, or psychological, constraints (eg, low self-efficacy or an external locus of control) may also play a part.”
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“It can be postulated that the motivation of people with a long-term condition differs from those without a diagnosis of a health problem because the need for change is both more immediate and more personal.”
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“Characteristics of the intervention that may improve adherence to the intervention include a strong theoretical foundation [41], perceived personal relevance to the user [65,66], perceived effectiveness [67,68], tailoring [69,70], persuasive technologies [71], credibility [72,73], social networking [74,75], and regular “push factors” including human support [76-78] and/or periodic prompts (eg, by”
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“One way of ensuring an intervention is used by large numbers of people is to integrate it into routine health services, but this has been rarely done to date.”
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“Although many researchers have found that women, older people, and well-educated people are all more likely to demonstrate adherence to Web-based interventions than males, younger people, and less-educated people [65,66,68,69]”
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“Although there are some interventions that have been used by very large numbers of people [82,83], many interventions have not been widely disseminated.”
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“There is also a paucity of data on actual cost-effectiveness of Internet interventions [17,34], making it difficult to determine their actual, versus potential, cost-benefits.”
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“Even when an intervention is effective, the main costs tend to be incurred during development, with relatively low marginal costs per additional user, so that any cost-benefit relies on achieving large numbers of users [17].”
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“A similar methodological approach, but focusing on the use of persuasive features and mechanisms embedded in Web-based interventions, found considerable use of persuasive techniques. However, the authors were unable to conclude whether specific techniques were associated with effectiveness [63].”
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“Qualitative data suggest that users find such “personal experiences” helpful in reaching decisions [55], but there are less data available about whether and how such narratives impact emotional or clinical outcomes [56].”
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“Attrition from Web-based interventions is a phenomenon that has been observed frequently [64] that may undermine effectiveness.”
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“The potential cost-effectiveness of Internet interventions is highly appealing, but an intervention has to be effective before it can be cost-effective.”
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“Implementation of eHealth has proved problematic in most countries, with numerous reports of delay, budget overspends, and occasional severely negative impacts on the quality and effectiveness of care [84,85].”
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- Not checked yetcites [84] Department of HealthNational Audit Office20062012-08-11LondonThe Stationery OfficeThe National Programme for IT in the NHShttp://www.nao.org.uk/publications/0506/department_of_health_the_nati.aspx?alreadysearchfor=yes69q5utIU3
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“Data on user characteristics are confusing and contradictory.”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Effectiveness > Mechanism of Action
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“This may be because of differences in target populations, target behaviors, target outcomes, or differences in the content or delivery of the interventions themselves.”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Effectiveness > Mechanism of Action
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“others have found no association between adherence and age, gender, or education level [80,81].”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Effectiveness > Mechanism of Action
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“It suggests a phased approach, with early work (Phases 0 to 2) consisting of systematic literature reviews to identify what is already known, theoretical work to establish an appropriate theoretical foundation, modeling studies to establish potential rate-limiting steps and population impact, qualitative studies to determine acceptability and feasibility, studies to confirm (or deny) the proposed”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply the Medical Research Council Framework
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“Phase 4 (implementation) studies are needed both to establish how best to implement the intervention into routine practice and to determine whether the benefits shown in the trial manifest outside the trial environment. Phase 4 studies can also identify unintended adverse effects [90,91].”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply the Medical Research Council Framework
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- Not checked yetcites [90] MRC Health Services and Public Health Research BoardMedical Research Council2000042012-08-11LondonMedical Research CouncilA Framework for Development and Evaluation of RCTs for Complex Interventions to Improve Healthhttp://www.mrc.ac.uk/Utilities/Documentrecord/index.htm?d=MRC00337269q6M4rBF
- Not checked yetcites [91] Anderson, R, 2008, BMJ source
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“Therefore, the Medical Research Council (MRC) framework for developing, evaluating, and implementing complex interventions offers an appropriate framework for research on Web-based interventions.”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply the Medical Research Council Framework
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [90] MRC Health Services and Public Health Research BoardMedical Research Council2000042012-08-11LondonMedical Research CouncilA Framework for Development and Evaluation of RCTs for Complex Interventions to Improve Healthhttp://www.mrc.ac.uk/Utilities/Documentrecord/index.htm?d=MRC00337269q6M4rBF
- Not checked yetcites [91] Anderson, R, 2008, BMJ source
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“Application of theory is likely to enhance the effectiveness and success of implementation initiatives.”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply Theory to the Implementation of Web-Based Interventions
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“An alternative approach used in the mental health field is “facilitated access” in which use of the intervention is monitored and supported by a health care worker or therapist.”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply Theory to the Evaluation of the Web-Based Intervention
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“Kraft [97] has advised researchers to consider the use of an intervention as the first behavior change to target.”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply Theory to the Evaluation of the Web-Based Intervention
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- Not checked yetcites [97] source
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“Achieving large numbers of users often requires implementing and integrating interventions into routine health care, but this has proved difficult to date.”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply Theory to the Implementation of Web-Based Interventions
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“The precursor to NPT, normalization process model (NPM), originated from a large body of work on eHealth and was developed to explain the observation that many eHealth initiatives failed to embed into routine practice [112,113].”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply Theory to the Implementation of Web-Based Interventions
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“These early phase studies aim to optimize both the intervention and the evaluation, with a view to ensuring that a final Phase 3 trial will provide a definitive answer.”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply Theory to the Evaluation of the Web-Based Intervention
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“This provides empirical support for the proposed “pathway of action” of the intervention.”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply Theory to the Evaluation of the Web-Based Intervention
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“Thus if an intervention has been designed to cause changes in self-efficacy and outcome expectancies, it is important that the evaluation determines whether changes in these proximal outcomes occur as well as whether the target behavior changes.”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply Theory to the Evaluation of the Web-Based Intervention
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“The MRC framework advises the use of a theoretical framework for development of the intervention, and this advice is supported by the empirical literature which demonstrates that theoretically informed Web-based interventions are more likely to be effective than those without a theoretical foundation.”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply Theory to the Development of Web-Based Interventions
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“Eysenbach [64] has argued that researchers need to document and publish the content of interventions just as they should document both the planned and actual level of engagement by participants with interventions under evaluation.”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply Theory to the Evaluation of the Web-Based Intervention
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- Not checked yetcites [64] source
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In the paper
“Theories offer us generalizable frameworks that can apply across different settings and individuals, the opportunity for incremental accumulation of knowledge, and an explicit framework for analysis [95].”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply Theory to the Development of Web-Based Interventions
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- Not checked yetcites [95] Clinical Effectiveness Research Agenda GroupImplementation Science20092012-08-11LondonDepartment of HealthAn Implementation Research Agenda. A report prepared for the High Level Group on Clinical Effectivenesshttp://www.implementationscience.com/content/4/1/18/additional/69q6Wnw1Z
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“He advocates “tunnelling,” or highly tailored pre-determined routes through the intervention, coupled with numerous proactive contacts by the intervention to the user delivered through short message service (SMS), email, or automated phone calls [98,99].”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply Theory to the Evaluation of the Web-Based Intervention
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“Researchers interested in developing a Web-based behavior-change intervention have a wide range of psychological theories from which to choose.”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply Theory to the Development of Web-Based Interventions
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“A similar toolkit, the eHealth Implementation Toolkit (e-HIT), is aimed specifically at eHealth interventions and has been developed for use by managers and other staff charged with implementing eHealth initiatives (ie, implementers) [120-122].”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply Theory to the Implementation of Web-Based Interventions
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“It has been highly influential, with many additional publications on applying, extending, and revising the framework [92-94].”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply the Medical Research Council Framework
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In the paper
“Only when both the intervention and the trial parameters have been optimized and the mechanism of action has been well defined, should researchers proceed to a Phase 3 randomized controlled trial to establish the effectiveness of the intervention.”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply the Medical Research Council Framework
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“This framework was first published in 2000 [90] and revised in 2008 [91].”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Progress > Apply the Medical Research Council Framework
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- Not checked yetcites [90] MRC Health Services and Public Health Research BoardMedical Research Council2000042012-08-11LondonMedical Research CouncilA Framework for Development and Evaluation of RCTs for Complex Interventions to Improve Healthhttp://www.mrc.ac.uk/Utilities/Documentrecord/index.htm?d=MRC00337269q6M4rBF
- Not checked yetcites [91] Anderson, R, 2008, BMJ source
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In the paper
“Use of an appropriate theoretical framework (eg, NPT and its associated tool kit) may help researchers work through implementation issues in a structured fashion.”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Conclusions
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“This will facilitate improved research designs to evaluate interventions because important mediators or proximal outcomes will be clearly specified.”
§ Web-Based Interventions for Behavior Change and Self-Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Progress > Conclusions
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“It has argued that the application of the MRC framework for development, evaluation, and implementation of complex interventions, together with a greater use of theory could help address these challenges.”
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Normalization is important for sustainability.
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“The application was equipped with neither “push” factors nor an advanced decision support system providing feedback based on accumulated data and other personal profiles, which are advocated for long-term usage, according to relevant studies [62-65].”
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“The application was equipped with neither “push” factors nor an advanced decision support system providing feedback based on accumulated data and other personal profiles, which are advocated for long-term usage, according to relevant studies [62-65].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Murray, E.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Murray, Elizabeth
- ORCID
- Murray, Elizabeth
- Venue
- Medicine 2.0
- Publisher
- JMIR Publications Inc.
- Published
- 2012-08-14
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- e3
- ISSN
- 1923-2195 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4084772
- OpenAlex
- W1990682749
- Semantic Scholar
- 9df2e6a2abb5681b956d48cd0444286309af5d22
- Cited by
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- References
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- FWCI
- 19.86
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- journal article
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- en
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- hybrid
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Keywords
- online intervention, e-health, behavior change, self-management, chronic disease, self-care, digital divide, health disparities, implementation, complex interventions, MRC framework, mechanism of action, scalability, health care costs
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