Five Lessons Learned From Randomized Controlled Trials on Mobile Health Interventions : Consensus Procedure on Practical Recommendations for Sustainable Research

©Daniel Pach, Alizé A Rogge, Jiani Wang, Claudia M Witt. Originally published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth (http://mhealth.jmir.org), 08.02.2021..

BACKGROUND: Clinical research on mobile health (mHealth) interventions is too slow in comparison to the rapid speed of technological advances, thereby impeding sustainable research and evidence-based implementation of mHealth interventions.

OBJECTIVE: We aimed to establish practical lessons from the experience of our working group, which might accelerate the development of future mHealth interventions and their evaluation by randomized controlled trials (RCTs).

METHODS: This paper is based on group and expert discussions, and focuses on the researchers' perspectives after four RCTs on mHealth interventions for chronic pain.

RESULTS: The following five lessons are presented, which are based on practical application, increase of speed, and sustainability: (1) explore stakeholder opinions, (2) develop the mHealth app and trial simultaneously, (3) minimize complexity, (4) manage necessary resources, and (5) apply behavior change techniques.

CONCLUSIONS: The five lessons developed may lead toward an agile research environment. Agility might be the key factor in the development and research process of a potentially sustainable and evidence-based mHealth intervention.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

JMIR mHealth and uHealth - 9(2021), 2 vom: 08. Feb., Seite e20630

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pach, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Rogge, Alizé A [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jiani [VerfasserIn]
Witt, Claudia M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Behavior change techniques (BCTs)
Journal Article
MHealth
Mobile apps
Pain
Recommendations

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 29.04.2021

Date Revised 29.04.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2196/20630

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM32115777X