Web-based intervention support system for health promotion

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• 作者：Huigang Liang ; Yajiong Xue and Bruce A. Berger
• 关键词：Web-based decision support systems ; Transtheoretical model ; Tailored intervention ; Health behavior change
• 刊名：Decision Support Systems
• 出版年：2006
• 出版时间：October 2006
• 年：2006
• 卷：42
• 期：1
• 页码：435-449
• 全文大小：234 K

文摘

The Web has attracted considerable attention as an avenue to improve healthcare delivery. This paper describes the development of a Web-based intervention support system (WISS) that helps provide tailored interventions to enhance health-related behavior change. The tailoring strategy is based on the transtheoretical model (TTM). The performance of WISS was assessed by a pilot study, a controlled randomized longitudinal experiment involving 366 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Results suggest that WISS can reduce MS patients' medication discontinuation rate and move more patients to a stage where dropout is least likely to occur.