Cyd K Eaton, Emma McWilliams, Dana Yablon, Irem Kesim, Renee Ge, Karissa Mirus, Takeera Sconiers, Alfred Donkoh, Melanie Lawrence, Cynthia George, Mary Leigh Morrison, Emily Muther, Gabriela R Oates, Meghana Sathe, Gregory S Sawicki, Carolyn Snell, Kristin Riekert
BACKGROUND: Mobile health (mHealth) interventions have immense potential to support disease self-management for people with complex medical conditions following treatment regimens that involve taking medicine and other self-management activities. However, there is no consensus on what discrete behavior change techniques (BCTs) should be used in an effective adherence and self-management-promoting mHealth solution for any chronic illness. Reviewing the extant literature to identify effective, cross-cutting BCTs in mHealth interventions for adherence and self-management promotion could help accelerate the development, evaluation, and dissemination of behavior change interventions with potential generalizability across complex medical conditions...
May 1, 2024: JMIR MHealth and UHealth