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Lessons Learned in Digital Health Promotion: The Promise and Challenge of Contextual Behavioral Science Methodology in Valuing Intervention Research

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Using individualized approaches leads to longer-term pro-health behavior change. Both technological delivery methods and values-centered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) are useful frameworks for personalized interventions. This investigation sought to explore the effects that valuing had on health using an internet-delivered audio and writing group-level intervention. Specifically, we replicated the use of domain-specific outcomes and idiographic motivational statements sent via text message while additionally employing individualized intervention delivery components, objectives, and statistical methods. While this intervention did not generate significant improvement in health behaviors relative to a control in a sample of 107 college student participants, it has implications for future digital health intervention design and implementation as well as the further development of theoretically consistent valuing research methods.

Source: Behavioral Sciences

DOI: 10.3390/bs15081095

Authors: Jessica M. Criddle, Wesley Malvini, Hayley Jasper, Michael J. Bordieri

Institutions: Murray State University, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, The University of Texas at Tyler

Language: English

Topic: Digital Mental Health Interventions

Subfield: Applied Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,654