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Translational Behavioral Medicine
Published in: Translational Behavioral Medicine 2/2017

Open Access 01-06-2017 | Systematic Reviews

Conceptualising engagement with digital behaviour change interventions: a systematic review using principles from critical interpretive synthesis

Authors: Olga Perski, Ann Blandford, Robert West, Susan Michie

Published in: Translational Behavioral Medicine | Issue 2/2017

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Abstract

“Engagement” with digital behaviour change interventions (DBCIs) is considered important for their effectiveness. Evaluating engagement is therefore a priority; however, a shared understanding of how to usefully conceptualise engagement is lacking. This review aimed to synthesise literature on engagement to identify key conceptualisations and to develop an integrative conceptual framework involving potential direct and indirect influences on engagement and relationships between engagement and intervention effectiveness. Four electronic databases (Ovid MEDLINE, PsycINFO, ISI Web of Knowledge, ScienceDirect) were searched in November 2015. We identified 117 articles that met the inclusion criteria: studies employing experimental or non-experimental designs with adult participants explicitly or implicitly referring to engagement with DBCIs, digital games or technology. Data were synthesised using principles from critical interpretive synthesis. Engagement with DBCIs is conceptualised in terms of both experiential and behavioural aspects. A conceptual framework is proposed in which engagement with a DBCI is influenced by the DBCI itself (content and delivery), the context (the setting in which the DBCI is used and the population using it) and the behaviour that the DBCI is targeting. The context and “mechanisms of action” may moderate the influence of the DBCI on engagement. Engagement, in turn, moderates the influence of the DBCI on those mechanisms of action. In the research literature, engagement with DBCIs has been conceptualised in terms of both experience and behaviour and sits within a complex system involving the DBCI, the context of use, the mechanisms of action of the DBCI and the target behaviour.
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Metadata
Title
Conceptualising engagement with digital behaviour change interventions: a systematic review using principles from critical interpretive synthesis
Authors
Olga Perski
Ann Blandford
Robert West
Susan Michie
Publication date
01-06-2017
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Translational Behavioral Medicine / Issue 2/2017
Print ISSN: 1869-6716
Electronic ISSN: 1613-9860
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13142-016-0453-1

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