The promise and challenge of eHealth interventions - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2002 Nov-Dec;26(6):494-503.

doi: 10.5993/ajhb.26.6.10.

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• PMID: 12437024
• DOI: 10.5993/ajhb.26.6.10

The promise and challenge of eHealth interventions

Nancy L Atkinson et al. Am J Health Behav. 2002 Nov-Dec.

Abstract

Objective: To discuss how health behavior researchers can use the Internet to study and intervene on health behavior.

Methods: Describe how the Internet is increasingly able to offer a viable medium for health behavior intervention and the challenges and opportunities inherent in conducting online interventions and research.

Results: The challenges of eHealth include coping with the additional demands of development, finding ways to reach "hard-to-reach" audiences, and maintaining privacy and security while monitoring participant use.

Conclusions: Health behavior researchers and interventionists need to learn to apply eHealth tools to extend their ability to study and influence health behavior.

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