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Macro-engagement in mHealth: Exploring user engagement beyond the screen.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Toward Participatory Precision Health With Co-Designed Recommendations: Systematic Review of Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions in Adolescents and Young Adults.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Optimization of a Mobile Transdiagnostic Emotion Regulation Intervention for University Students: A Micro-Randomized Trial.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2025Trial
- How People Integrate Mental Health Apps Into Everyday Self-Care: Qualitative Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Article
- Perspectives of Clinical Researchers on Engagement With Digital Mental Health Interventions: Qualitative Interview Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Mechanisms of Engagement With Mobile Health Apps for Adults With Long-Term Conditions: Overview of Systematic Reviews.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Review
- Mixed-methods assessment of engagement with a digital intervention: The Wrapped feasibility randomised controlled trial.PLOS digital health · 2026Article
- ROOM to Grow, a Mobile Well-Being Intervention for University Students: Overview of the Design Process and Outcomes.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Effectiveness and uptake of a transdiagnostic emotion regulation mobile intervention among university students: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Internet interventions · 2024Article
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Abstract
While digital technology holds great promise for health and well-being, some users feel sceptical about the time they spend online and how they use their mobile devices. This attitude could hamper uptake of digital health technologies and engagement with them. This study uses the concept of macro-engagement as a starting point to investigate how users of digital behaviour change interventions (DBCIs) engage with their behaviour change goals beyond the screens of their tools. Thirty semi-structured interviews were conducted with individuals who take part in behaviour change processes in different ways (i.e. mental health professionals, digital health experts and users of DBCIs). A qualitative analysis of their data through a grounded theory approach highlighted a wide array of offscreen behaviors and strategies that complement a behavior change process offscreen. Furthermore, implications for designing technology that encourages progressive non-reliance on DBCI usage are drawn out.
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