Background: With a growing focus on patient interaction with health management, mobile
apps are increasingly used to deliver behavioral health interventions. The large variation in …

ABSTRACT A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted of the techniques used
to promote psychological need satisfaction and motivation within health interventions based …

Purpose This systematic review aims to explain the heterogeneity in results of interventions
to promote physical activity and healthy eating for overweight and obese adults, by exploring …

Physical inactivity and sedentary behavior relate to poor health outcomes independently.
Healthy inactive adults are a key target population for prevention. This systematic review …

Objective Smartphone games that aim to alter health behaviours are common, but there is
uncertainty about how to achieve this. We systematically reviewed health apps containing …

This paper describes an approach that we have evolved for develo** successful digital
interventions to help people manage their health or illness. We refer to this as the “person …

Interventions to change health-related behaviours typically have modest effects and may be
more effective if grounded in appropriate theory. Most theories applied to public health …

Behavior change interventions typically contain multiple potentially active components:
behavior change techniques (BCTs). Identifying which specific BCTs or BCT combinations …

Background Meeting global health challenges requires effective behaviour change
interventions (BCIs). This depends on advancing the science of behaviour change which, in …

Background CONSORT guidelines call for precise reporting of behavior change
interventions: we need rigorous methods of characterizing active content of interventions …