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The Promise and Challenge of eHealth Interventions
Nancy L. Atkinson, PhD; Robert S. Gold, PhD, DrPH, FAAHB
Objective:
To discuss how health behavior researchers can use the Internet to study and intervene on health behavior.
Methods: Describe how the Internet is increasingly able to offer a viable medium for health behavior intervention and the challenges and opportunities inherent in conducting online interventions and research.
Results: The challenges of eHealth include coping with the additional demands of development, finding ways to reach “hard-to-reach” audiences, and maintaining privacy and security while monitoring participant use.
Conclusion: Health behavior researchers and interventionists need to learn to apply eHealth tools to extend their ability to study and influence health behavior.
Am J Health Behav 2002;26(6):494-503
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