The Person-Based Approach to Intervention Development: Application to Digital Health-Related Behavior Change Interventions

This paper describes an approach that we have evolved for developing successful digital interventions to help people manage their health or illness. We refer to this as the "person-based" approach to highlight the focus on understanding and accommodating the perspectives of the people who will use the intervention. While all intervention designers seek to elicit and incorporate the views of target users in a variety of ways, the person-based approach offers a distinctive and systematic means of addressing the user experience of intended behavior change techniques in particular and can enhance the use of theory-based and evidence-based approaches to intervention development. There are two key elements to the…

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  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

  Awards: EP/I032673/1, EP/I032673/1
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  Economic and Social Research Council

  Award: ES/F029624/1