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Behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2020)

NICE - N/A

Evidence Categories

Care setting: Community setting
Care setting: Other settings
Population group: Adults
Population group: General Population
Intervention: Supporting behaviour change
Outcome: Abstinence from alcohol
Outcome: Changes to frequency/amount of alcohol use

Type of Evidence

Guidance

Overview

This guideline covers interventions that use a digital or mobile platform to help people eat more healthily, become more active, stop smoking, reduce their alcohol intake or practise safer sex. The interventions include those delivered by text message, apps, wearable devices or the internet. The guideline only includes those that are delivered by the technology itself and not by healthcare professionals using technology to deliver interventions.

Recommendations

This guideline includes recommendations on:

developing digital and mobile health interventions
commissioning digital and mobile health interventions
using digital and mobile health interventions
interventions for diet and physical activity
interventions for smoking
interventions for alcohol use
interventions for unsafe sexual behaviour