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Best Practices for Designing and Testing Behavioral and Health Communication Interventions for Delivery in Private Facebook Groups: Tutorial.
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Abstract
Facebook, the most popular social media platform in the United States, is used by 239 million US adults, which represents 71% of the population. Not only do most US adults use Facebook but they also spend an average of 40 minutes per day on the platform. Due to Facebook's reach and ease of use, it is increasingly being used as a modality for delivering behavioral and health communication interventions. Typically, a Facebook-delivered intervention involves creating a private group to deliver intervention content for participants to engage with asynchronously. In many interventions, a counselor is present to facilitate discussions and provide feedback and support. Studies of Facebook-delivered interventions have been conducted on a variety of topics, and they vary widely in terms of the intervention content used in the group, use of human counselors, group size, engagement, and other characteristics. In addition, results vary widely and may depend on how well the intervention was executed and the degree to which it elicited engagement among participants. Best practices for designing and delivering behavioral intervention content for asynchronous delivery in Facebook groups are lacking, as are best practices for engaging participants via this modality. In this tutorial, we propose best practices for the use of private Facebook groups for delivery and testing the efficacy of behavioral or health communication interventions, including converting traditional intervention content into Facebook posts; creating protocols for onboarding, counseling, engagement, and data management; designing and branding intervention content; and using engagement data to optimize engagement and outcomes.
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