Novel Digital Architecture for Initiating and Maintaining Long-Term Sustainable Health-Promoting Behavior Change

Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Novel Digital Architecture for Initiating and Maintaining Long-Term Sustainable Health-Promoting Behavior Change

Globally, the burden of noncommunicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes is crippling health care systems. Type 2 diabetes, a disease linked with obesity, affects 1 in every 30 people today and is expected to affect 1 in 10 people by 2030. Current provisions are struggling to manage the trajectory of type 2 diabetes prevalence. Offline, face-to-face education for patients with type 2 diabetes has shown to lack long-term impact or the capacity for widespread democratized adoption. Digitally delivered interventions have been developed for patients with type 2 diabetes, and the evidence shows that some interventions provide the capacity to support hyperpersonalization and real-time continuous support to patients, which can result in significant engagement and health outcomes.

However, digital health app engagement is notoriously difficult to achieve.

This paper, written by Charlotte Summers and Kristina Curtis reviews the digital behavior change architecture of the Low Carb Program and the application of health behavioral theory underpinning its development and use in scaling novel methods of engaging the population with type 2 diabetes and supporting long-term behavior change.

Read the paper here.

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