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ISRII 7th Scientific Meeting
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Title: Nonuse of Internet Interventions for People with a Chronic Health Condition
Abstract No.
0111
Title
Nonuse of Internet Interventions for People with a Chronic Health Condition
Abstract
High levels of attrition and poor adherence are wellcited problems affecting the efficacy of Internet interventions for mental and physical health conditions. Strategies to address these issues have typically focused on trying to improve the design, content, or accessibility of the intervention or change a characteristic of the user. Such strategies implicitly assume that there is some kind of deficit in the intervention or person and that, if “fixed” more people will logically use the intervention. But what if nonuse (including attrition and poor adherence) to online interventions was a product of other factors such as offline healthrelated behaviours, conscious decisions to not use the intervention or substitution with competing technologies?
In the sounding board session I will briefly present a research proposal for a study that aims to generate a more comprehensive understanding of the nonuse of Internet interventions for chronic health conditions. While the intervention, health condition and study population are yet to be finalised, I will focus on the general framework for the study. Research methods will include: 1. a systematic review addressing what is known about the nonuse of interventions for chronic health conditions; 2. a systematic review of existing strategies of for addressing nonuse; 3. an observational study of the online and offline health behaviours people with a chronic health condition offered an internet intervention; 4. followup interviews with nonusers. It is anticipated that a fifth study could be designed that uses the findings from studies 14 to develop and test theories which may encourage better uptake of Internet interventions.
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(1) Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Authors
Thomas FULLER (1) Presenting
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Categories
Other Behavioral Health
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Adherence to internet interventions
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The Netherlands
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Biography
Thomas Fuller is a health psychologist currently working clinically in student services at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He also holds an affiliated research position in the psychology department at Leiden University. Thomas has worked internationally;is interested in improving adherence to online programs; and has published resources for psychologists as well as on the issue of integrity and transparency in the reporting of research.
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