Trial reportHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2021
Translating strategies for promoting engagement in mobile health: A proof-of-concept microrandomized trial.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
- Social Media Potential and Impact on Changing Behaviors and Actions in Skin Health Promotion: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Factors Influencing Adherence to mHealth Apps for Prevention or Management of Noncommunicable Diseases: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- Social media interventions and the moderation of baseline substance use: A secondary data analysis.Addictive behaviors · 2026Trial
- Engagement With a Remote Symptom-Tracking Platform Among Participants With Major Depressive Disorder: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2024Trial
- The Goldilocks Dilemma on Balancing User Response and Reflection in mHealth Interventions: Observational Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2024Trial
- How Notifications Affect Engagement With a Behavior Change App: Results From a Micro-Randomized Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2023Trial
- Self-relevant appeals to engage in self-monitoring of alcohol use: A microrandomized trial.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Trial
- Antecedents and consequences of different indicators of engagement with a digital intervention for tobacco cessation.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- Promoting adherence to weight-related behaviors in young adults: Design of the Nudge microrandomized trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2026Article
- Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions: Where Are We Now and What Is Next?Annual review of psychology · 2026Review
- "It felt more real": Investigating the User Experience of the MiWaves Personalizing JITAI Pilot Study.International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare : [proceedings]. International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare · 2026Article
- Preferences and predictors driving opioid-involved polysubstance use profiles and trajectories: a prospective cohort study protocol.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Missing data in microrandomized trials: Challenges and opportunities.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Momentary mindfulness versus distraction coping messages to reduce cannabis craving among young adults: A microrandomized trial.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2025Article
- Designing digital health interventions with causal inference and multi-armed bandits: a review.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Review
- Study protocol for a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial to decrease alcohol use before and after surgery.Contemporary clinical trials · 2024Article
- A feature-based qualitative assessment of smoking cessation mobile applications.PLOS digital health · 2024Article
- A mobile health intervention for emerging adults with regular cannabis use: A micro-randomized pilot trial design protocol.Contemporary clinical trials · 2024Article
- From lab to life: Evaluating the reliability and validity of psychophysiological data from wearable devices in laboratory and ambulatory settings.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- ReBandit: Random Effects Based Online RL Algorithm for Reducing Cannabis Use.IJCAI : proceedings of the conference · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveMobile technologies allow for accessible and cost-effective health monitoring and intervention delivery. Despite these advantages, mobile health (mHealth) engagement is often insufficient. While monetary incentives may increase engagement, they can backfire, dampening intrinsic motivations and undermining intervention scalability. Theories from psychology and behavioral economics suggest useful nonmonetary strategies for promoting engagement; however, examinations of the applicability of these strategies to mHealth engagement are lacking. This proof-of-concept study evaluates the translation of theoretically-grounded engagement strategies into mHealth, by testing their potential utility in promoting daily self-reporting.
methodA microrandomized trial (MRT) was conducted with adolescents and emerging adults with past-month substance use. Participants were randomized multiple times daily to receive theoretically-grounded strategies, namely reciprocity (the delivery of inspirational quote prior to self-reporting window) and nonmonetary reinforcers (e.g., the delivery of meme/gif following self-reporting completion) to improve proximal engagement in daily mHealth self-reporting.
resultsDaily self-reporting rates (62.3%;
conclusionsWhile the results support the translation of the reciprocity strategy into this mHealth setting, the translation of nonmonetary reinforcement requires further consideration prior to inclusion in a full scale MRT. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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