Effectiveness of behavior change techniques in eHealth-based cardiac rehabilitation in patients with coronary artery disease: A systematic review

Emma R Douma, Tom Roovers, Mirela Habibović, Gert-Jan de Bruijn, Jos A Bosch, Boris Schmitz, Willem J Kop · 2024

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Heart rehab works, but which behavior tricks inside app-based rehab do the heavy lifting is unclear. Emma R Douma and co-authors sort the evidence in a 2024 systematic review. Eighty-eight trials with over twenty-five thousand heart patients were gathered from four databases. Each program's behavior techniques were coded from a standard taxonomy. Thirty-one distinct techniques appeared across the set.

Plain instruction on how to perform a behavior showed up in nearly every study. Evidence strength for each technique was graded from strong to absent. Bias checks used a public-health appraisal tool. Digital rehab can widen access, the authors note, which is why its parts matter. The review guides designers toward proven ingredients.

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CREATOREmma R Douma, Tom Roovers, Mirela Habibović, Gert-Jan de Bruijn, Jos A Bosch, Boris Schmitz, Willem J Kop
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE28 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11617113

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