Foundational knowledge - basics

In lesson 2 we reviewed some traditional and contemporary behavioral change theories and models, and we explored how they can be used for mHealth interventions. While these models have proved to be very useful to describe what cognitive and behavioral changes are required for people and their environment, they offer little information on designing mHealth interventions and evaluating their effectiveness (Riley et al., 2011).

As digital health interventions (DHI) have increased rapidly, new taxonomies and frameworks are needed (Mohr et al., 2014; Wang et al., 2019). Therefore, lesson 3 explores the Behavioral Intervention Technology (BIT) model and a holistic framework (TUDER) which combines behavioral theories, behavior change technique taxonomy, and persuasive system design principles to design and evaluate mHealth interventions.