A5008803699- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Frailty in Older Adults
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Community Health and Development
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Reproductive tract infections research
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Health disparities and outcomes
University of Southampton
2015-2024
NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre
2020-2024
Institute of Psychology
2022
Primary Health Care
2021
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
2020
Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children
2016
This paper describes an approach that we have evolved for developing successful digital interventions to help people manage their health or illness. We refer this as the "person-based" highlight focus on understanding and accommodating perspectives of who will use intervention. While all intervention designers seek elicit incorporate views target users in a variety ways, person-based offers distinctive systematic means addressing user experience intended behavior change techniques particular...
Background: There is increasing interest from academics and clinicians in harnessing smartphone applications (apps) as a means of delivering behavioral interventions for health. Despite the growing availability range health-related apps on market, academic research development evaluation such relatively early stages. A few existing studies have explored views various populations using mobile phones issues some are beginning to report user feedback specific apps. However, there remains little...
Push notifications offer a promising strategy for enhancing engagement with smartphone-based health interventions. Intelligent sensor-driven machine learning models may improve the timeliness of by adapting delivery to user's current context (e.g. location). This exploratory mixed-methods study examined potential impact timing and frequency on notification response usage Healthy Mind, stress management intervention. 77 participants were randomised use one three versions Mind that provided:...
Internet-based health behaviour interventions have variable effects on health-related outcomes. Effectiveness may be improved by optimizing the design of interventions. This study examined specific effect engagement providing two different features - tailoring and self-assessment.
Background: Recent reviews suggest Web-based interventions are promising approaches for weight management but they identify difficulties with suboptimal usage. The literature suggests that offering some degree of human support to website users may boost usage and outcomes.
It is recognised as good practice to use qualitative methods elicit users' views of internet-delivered health-care interventions during their development. This paper seeks illustrate the advantages combining usability testing with 'theoretical modelling', i.e. analyses that relate findings studies intervention development social science theory, in order gain deeper insights into reasons and context for how people respond intervention. illustrates may be enriched by theoretical modelling...
Advancements in mobile phone technology offer huge potential for enhancing the timely delivery of health behavior change interventions. The development smartphone-based interventions (apps) is a rapidly growing field research, yet there have been few longitudinal examinations how people experience and use these apps within their day-to-day routines, particularly context hybrid Web- app-based intervention.This study used an in-depth mixed-methods design to examine individual variation (1)...
Trials of digital interventions can yield extensive, in-depth usage data, yet analyses tend to focus on broad descriptive summaries how an intervention has been used by the whole sample. This paper proposes a novel framework guide systematic, fine-grained that better enables understanding works, when, and for whom. The comprises three stages assist in following: (1) familiarization with its relationship captured (2) identification meaningful measures specifying research questions systematic...
The value and importance of qualitative research Patient Public Involvement (PPI) for developing complex health interventions is widely recognised. However, there often confusion between the two, with researchers relying on just one these approaches, rather than using two alongside another.The Person-Based Approach (PBA) to health-related behaviour change adapts integrates methods from user-centred design research. PBA involves at multiple stages ensure they are acceptable, feasible,...
Pandemic influenza poses a future health threat against which infection control behaviours may be an important defence. However, there is little qualitative research examining perceptions of measures in the context pandemic influenza. Eight focus groups and one interview were conducted with purposive sample 31 participants. Participants invited to discuss their transmission likely adherence both non-pandemic contexts. Infection discussed included handwashing, social distancing cough hygiene...
Choices in the design and delivery of digital health behaviour interventions may have a direct influence on subsequent usage engagement. Few studies been able to make direct, detailed comparisons differences between that are delivered via web or app. This study compared two versions stress management intervention, one website (Healthy Paths) other an app Mind). Design modifications were introduced within Healthy Mind take account reported how individuals engage with websites apps mobile...
In designing digital interventions for healthcare, it is important to understand not just whether work but also how and whom—including individual intervention components have different effects, a certain usage threshold required change behavior in each differs across population subgroups. We investigated these questions using data from large trial of the PRimary care website based Infection control Modify Influenza-like illness respiratory tract infection Transmission) (PRIMIT) intervention,...
Background: Attrition is a significant problem in Web-based interventions. Consequently, this research aims to identify the relation between Web usage and benefit from such A visualization tool has been developed that enables researchers more easily examine large datasets on intervention can be difficult make sense of using traditional descriptive or statistical techniques alone.
Objectives Adolescent health behaviours do not support optimal development. Adolescents are reportedly difficult to engage in behaviour improvement initiatives. Little is known about what adolescents value relation diet and physical activity or how best target these interventions. This study explored adolescents’ values can inform intervention design. Design Qualitative semi‐structured interviews lives, they thought might them improve their behaviours. Methods A total of 13 group were...
Abstract Background People living with dementia at home and their family carers often feel unsupported by healthcare professionals in managing continence problems. In turn, primary community-based have reported lacking specific knowledge on dementia-continence. This study aimed to understand more about professionals’ experiences views of supporting people experiencing problems, as part developing acceptable resources. Having a nuanced understanding unmet need would facilitate the design...
Background Experiences of living with and seeking care for multimorbidity is a relatively under-researched field. By analysing experiences people multimorbidity, caregivers professionals, we can better understand the complex needs those identify improvements to management. This paper reports findings from research that elicited views key stakeholders inform future practice policy. Aim To elicit recipient provider multimorbidity. Method A qualitative interview study using purposive sampling...