Skip to main content
Journal cover image

mHealth interventions for weight loss: a guide for achieving treatment fidelity.

Publication ,  Journal Article
Shaw, RJ; Steinberg, DM; Zullig, LL; Bosworth, HB; Johnson, CM; Davis, LL
Published in: J Am Med Inform Assoc
2014

UNLABELLED: mHealth interventions have shown promise for helping people sustain healthy behaviors such as weight loss. However, few have assessed treatment fidelity, that is, the accurate delivery, receipt, and enactment of the intervention. Treatment fidelity is critical because the valid interpretation and translation of intervention studies depend on treatment fidelity assessments. We describe strategies used to assess treatment fidelity in mobile health (mHealth) interventions aimed at sustaining healthy behaviors in weight loss. We reviewed treatment fidelity recommendations for mHealth-based behavioral interventions and described how these recommendations were applied in three recent weight loss studies. We illustrate how treatment fidelity can be supported during study design, training of providers, treatment delivery, receipt of treatment, and enactment of treatment skills. Pre-planned strategies to ensure the treatment fidelity of mHealth interventions will help counter doubts concerning valid conclusions about their effectiveness and allow investigators and clinicians to implement robustly efficacious mobile health programs. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: 1F31 NR012599.

Duke Scholars

Altmetric Attention Stats
Dimensions Citation Stats

Published In

J Am Med Inform Assoc

DOI

EISSN

1527-974X

Publication Date

2014

Volume

21

Issue

6

Start / End Page

959 / 963

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Weight Loss
  • Telemedicine
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Overweight
  • Medical Informatics
  • Humans
  • Benchmarking
  • 46 Information and computing sciences
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
 

Citation

APA
Chicago
ICMJE
MLA
NLM
Shaw, R. J., Steinberg, D. M., Zullig, L. L., Bosworth, H. B., Johnson, C. M., & Davis, L. L. (2014). mHealth interventions for weight loss: a guide for achieving treatment fidelity. J Am Med Inform Assoc, 21(6), 959–963. https://doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002610
Shaw, Ryan J., Dori M. Steinberg, Leah L. Zullig, Hayden B. Bosworth, Constance M. Johnson, and Linda L. Davis. “mHealth interventions for weight loss: a guide for achieving treatment fidelity.J Am Med Inform Assoc 21, no. 6 (2014): 959–63. https://doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002610.
Shaw RJ, Steinberg DM, Zullig LL, Bosworth HB, Johnson CM, Davis LL. mHealth interventions for weight loss: a guide for achieving treatment fidelity. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014;21(6):959–63.
Shaw, Ryan J., et al. “mHealth interventions for weight loss: a guide for achieving treatment fidelity.J Am Med Inform Assoc, vol. 21, no. 6, 2014, pp. 959–63. Pubmed, doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002610.
Shaw RJ, Steinberg DM, Zullig LL, Bosworth HB, Johnson CM, Davis LL. mHealth interventions for weight loss: a guide for achieving treatment fidelity. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014;21(6):959–963.
Journal cover image

Published In

J Am Med Inform Assoc

DOI

EISSN

1527-974X

Publication Date

2014

Volume

21

Issue

6

Start / End Page

959 / 963

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Weight Loss
  • Telemedicine
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Overweight
  • Medical Informatics
  • Humans
  • Benchmarking
  • 46 Information and computing sciences
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences