Abstract
Introduction: eHealth is gaining more and more ground in health psychology and behavioural medicine
to support wellbeing, a healthier lifestyle or adherence to medications. Despite the large number of
eHealth projects to date, the actual use of eHealth interventions is lower than expected. Many projects
in Health fail to survive beyond the pilot phase and studies that investigate the effectiveness of eHealth
applications most often do not show long-term effects. The ongoing concern in academic literature
about these shortcomings situates eHealth as an immature research domain not capable to follow the
golden standards of high quality research in health psychology and behavioral medicine. On the other
side, in lifestyle or mental health interventions positive results with internet-based interventions can be
observed and patients favor internet interventions. Therefore, we will discuss how to make eHealth
interventions more enjoyable, feasible, and cost-effective.
Objectives: In this workshop we demonstrate how eHealth interventions can be improved, using
technology as a driver for adherence and behavior change. In our workshop we introduce a new
approach to guide the development of eHealth interventions. The approach is based on an integration of
theories form behavioural sciences and persuasive technology. The purpose of the workshop is first, to
provide new opportunities to develop eHealth interventions that are user centred and that are
implementable in practice, second to discuss an agenda for future research in eHealth for health
psychology and behavioral medicine-interventions. Learning outcomes are insight in how to use
technology to develop eHealth interventions that work, help and are cost effective, and knowledge
about how to evaluate the effects of eHealth interventions on adherence and outcomes.
Workshop activities: The workshop starts with a demonstration of examples of eHealth interventions to
support self-care and safe-care. Interventions we focus on are blended therapy for depression, selfmanagement
applications to support patients with chronic diseases, and applications to support medical
professionals to increase safety at work. The examples will be discussed alongside the new approach for
development and implementation to improve eHealth interventions. Persuasive Technology will be
highlighted as a strategy to increase the adherence to eHealth interventions. The effects of persuasive
technology on adherence and its’ consequences for design will be discussed with participants.
Participants will evaluate the persuasiveness and user friendliness of eHealth interventions using the
eHealthwiki.org (toolkit) and a persuasive model for system and content design. Finally, the workshop
synthesizes views on innovative research methods to improve the uptake and impact of eHealth
interventions. For the workshop we use our book, Improving eHealth(www.elevenpub.com)
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Workshop at the13th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine (ICBM2014), August 20-23 |
Place of Publication | Groningen |
Pages | - |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Event | 13th International Congress of Behavioural Medicine, ICBM 2014: Innovation in Behavioral Medicine - MartiniPlaza, Groningen, Netherlands Duration: 20 Aug 2014 → 23 Aug 2014 Conference number: 13 |
Conference
Conference | 13th International Congress of Behavioural Medicine, ICBM 2014 |
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Abbreviated title | ICBM |
Country/Territory | Netherlands |
City | Groningen |
Period | 20/08/14 → 23/08/14 |
Other | 20-08-2014 - 23-08-2014 |
Keywords
- IR-94134
- METIS-309086