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SynthesisPreventive medicine2008

Computer-delivered interventions for health promotion and behavioral risk reduction: a meta-analysis of 75 randomized controlled trials, 1988-2007.

David B Portnoy, Lori A J Scott-Sheldon, Blair T Johnson, Michael P Carey

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Synthesis in Preventive medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05090995 (A Photoplethysmography Sensor-based Personalized Feedback Intervention for Heavy-drinking Young Adults Targeting Heart Rate Variability, Resting Heart Rate, and Sleep), which is not on this map. Cited by 176 papers, 30 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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176citing papers in PubMed, 30 pooled it
22.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05090995 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

A Photoplethysmography Sensor-based Personalized Feedback Intervention for Heavy-drinking Young Adults Targeting Heart Rate Variability, Resting Heart Rate, and Sleep

TypeinterventionalSponsorYale UniversityRan2022 to 2023Enrolled60ConditionsHeavy Drinking, Harmful, Use, AlcoholArmsBehavioral Self-Management and Feedback, Behavioral Self-Management
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

176 citing papers in PubMed, 30 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 464 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Harnessing Digital Videos to Promote Cancer Prevention and Education: a Systematic Review of the Literature from 2013-2018.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2020
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  12. Brief interventions for illicit drug use among peripartum women.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2014
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  20. Meta-analysis of internet-delivered interventions to increase physical activity levels.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2012
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116 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

David B PortnoyCenter for Health, Intervention, and Prevention, 2006 Hillside Road, Unit 1248, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, 06269-1248, USA. david.portnoy@uconn.edu
Lori A J Scott-Sheldon
Blair T Johnson
Michael P Carey
Syracuse University · USUniversity of Connecticut · US

Funding

SYNTHESES OF HIV RISK REDUCTION RESEARCHR01MH058563 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS · PI JOHNSON, BLAIR T · 1998 to 2013
$5.2M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH058563NIMH NIH HHS R01-MH58563
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThe use of computers to promote healthy behavior is increasing. To evaluate the efficacy of these computer-delivered interventions, we conducted a meta-analysis of the published literature.

methodStudies examining health domains related to the leading health indicators outlined in Healthy People 2010 were selected. Data from 75 randomized controlled trials, published between 1988 and 2007, with 35,685 participants and 82 separate interventions were included. All studies were coded independently by two raters for study and participant characteristics, design and methodology, and intervention content. We calculated weighted mean effect sizes for theoretically-meaningful psychosocial and behavioral outcomes; moderator analyses determined the relation between study characteristics and the magnitude of effect sizes for heterogeneous outcomes.

resultsCompared with controls, participants who received a computer-delivered intervention improved several hypothesized antecedents of health behavior (knowledge, attitudes, intentions); intervention recipients also improved health behaviors (nutrition, tobacco use, substance use, safer sexual behavior, binge/purge behaviors) and general health maintenance. Several sample, study and intervention characteristics moderated the psychosocial and behavioral outcomes.

conclusionComputer-delivered interventions can lead to improved behavioral health outcomes at first post-intervention assessment. Interventions evaluating outcomes at extended assessment periods are needed to evaluate the longer-term efficacy of computer-delivered interventions.

Indexed as

ComputersHealth EducationHealth PromotionRisk Reduction BehaviorHealth BehaviorHumansRandomized Controlled Trials as Topic

Identifiers

PMID18403003
PMCPMC2572996
OpenAlexW2044709768

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