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A Community Participatory Approach to Creating Contextually Tailored mHealth Notifications: myBPmyLife Project.
- Source :
- Health Promotion Practice; May2024, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p417-427, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) are a novel approach to mobile health (mHealth) interventions, sending contextually tailored behavior change notifications to participants when they are more likely to engage, determined by data from wearable devices. We describe a community participatory approach to JITAI notification development for the myBPmyLife Project, a JITAI focused on decreasing sodium consumption and increasing physical activity to reduce blood pressure. Eighty-six participants were interviewed, 50 at a federally qualified health center (FQHC) and 36 at a university clinic. Participants were asked to provide encouraging physical activity and low-sodium diet notifications and provided feedback on researcher-generated notifications to inform revisions. Participant notifications were thematically analyzed using an inductive approach. Participants noted challenging vocabulary, phrasing, and culturally incongruent suggestions in some of the researcher-generated notifications. Community-generated notifications were more direct, used colloquial language, and contained themes of grace. The FQHC participants' notifications expressed more compassion, religiosity, and addressed health-related social needs. University clinic participants' notifications frequently focused on office environments. In summary, our participatory approach to notification development embedded a distinctive community voice within our notifications. Our approach may be generalizable to other communities and serve as a model to create tailored mHealth notifications to their focus population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15248399
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Health Promotion Practice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176929941
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/15248399221141687