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ArticleJournal of medical Internet research2023

Supporting Adolescent Engagement with Artificial Intelligence-Driven Digital Health Behavior Change Interventions.

Alison Giovanelli, Jonathan Rowe, Madelynn Taylor, Mark Berna, Kathleen P Tebb, Carlos Penilla, Marianne Pugatch, James Lester, Elizabeth M Ozer

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Article in Journal of medical Internet research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alison Giovanelli *Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5336-5674
Jonathan Rowe *Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, CA, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2038-9239
Madelynn TaylorDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.ORCID 0009-0002-8220-3591
Mark BernaDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.ORCID 0009-0007-6703-3527
Kathleen P TebbDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6401-7923
Carlos PenillaDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2212-5432
Marianne PugatchDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0315-1501
James LesterDepartment of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, CA, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1481-6601
Elizabeth M OzerDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8680-4453
University of California, San Francisco · USNorth Carolina State University · US

Funding

SCH: ChangeGradients: Promoting Health Behavior Change with Clinically Integrated Sample-Efficient Policy Gradient MethodsR01CA247705 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI OZER, ELIZABETH M · 2020 to 2023
$1.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA247705
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding and optimizing adolescent-specific engagement with behavior change interventions will open doors for providers to promote healthy changes in an age group that is simultaneously difficult to engage and especially important to affect. For digital interventions, there is untapped potential in combining the vastness of process-level data with the analytical power of artificial intelligence (AI) to understand not only how adolescents engage but also how to improve upon interventions with the goal of increasing engagement and, ultimately, efficacy. Rooted in the example of the INSPIRE narrative-centered digital health behavior change intervention (DHBCI) for adolescent risky behaviors around alcohol use, we propose a framework for harnessing AI to accomplish 4 goals that are pertinent to health care providers and software developers alike: measurement of adolescent engagement, modeling of adolescent engagement, optimization of current interventions, and generation of novel interventions. Operationalization of this framework with youths must be situated in the ethical use of this technology, and we have outlined the potential pitfalls of AI with particular attention to privacy concerns for adolescents. Given how recently AI advances have opened up these possibilities in this field, the opportunities for further investigation are plenty.

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Adolescent BehaviorArtificial IntelligenceAdolescentHealth BehaviorHumansRisk-TakingSoftwareadolescenceadolescentAI ethicsartificial intelligenceBCTbehavioral interventionbehavior changedigital health behavior changeengagementethicalethicsmachine learningmodeloperationalizationoptimizationprivacyrisky behaviorsecuritytrace log datayouth

Identifiers

PMID37223987
PMCPMC10248780
OpenAlexW4377939853

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