Lucy Yardley, Adrian Osmond & Leanne Morrison www.lifeguideonline.org Creating internet-delivered health behaviour change interventions using the LifeGuide Lucy Yardley, Adrian Osmond & Leanne Morrison www.lifeguideonline.org Please use the dd month yyyy format for the date for example 11 January 2008. The main title can be one or two lines long.

Overview of workshop (1.00-3.30) Introduction to internet-delivered health-care interventions (LY) Introduction to LifeGuide interventions (LY) Using LifeGuide: technical aspects (AO) Using LifeGuide: a new user’s perspective (LM) Using LifeGuide: live demo (AO) The future for LifeGuide and internet interventions (LY)

Introduction to internet-delivered health-care interventions Please use the dd month yyyy format for the date for example 11 January 2008. The main title can be one or two lines long.

Q: What are behavioural interventions Q: What are behavioural interventions? A: Packages of advice and support for behaviour change follow a fitness programme cut down alcohol consumption cope with illness follow a treatment regime

Traditional methods of delivering behavioural interventions a) face-to-face, e.g. therapist, coach expert, personalised effective but resource intensive b) print format, e.g. leaflet generic, no support cheap but low impact

Core components of effective behavioural interventions 1. Delivering advice, ‘tailored’; use ‘diagnostic’ questions to select relevant advice from extensive expert resources 2. Providing longitudinal support, e.g. plans, reminders progress monitoring progress-relevant feedback social support (therapist, peers)

What opportunities does the Internet offer for behaviour change interventions? For policy-makers – cost-effective delivery (for meta- analysis of effectiveness see Webb, Joseph, Yardley & Michie, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2010, 12, 4) For lay people – convenient 24/7 access to personalised advice for all problems from worldwide resources For professionals – detailed longitudinal monitoring, automation of routine services For scientists – potential to collect detailed longitudinal data on large samples If using a school logo, make sure that if you have a long page title, it does not encroach on the logo. Allow about 2cm around the logo. Run the page title onto two lines if necessary.

Introduction to LifeGuide New software that allows YOU to create internet-delivered health-care interventions Please use the dd month yyyy format for the date for example 11 January 2008. The main title can be one or two lines long.

Acknowledgements Funded by the ESRC as a node of the national programme for Digital Social Research Health psychologists: Lucy Yardley Susan Michie Judith Joseph Sarah Williams Leanne Morrison Computer scientists: Dave de Roure Gary Wills Mark Weal Adrian Osmond David Fowler Pei Zhang

Introducing LifeGuide LifeGuide is the first open source tool permitting rapid, flexible creation and modification of interventions Enables researchers with no programming skills to develop and modify online interventions Open source and free to use Embedded in our VRE (LifeGuide Community) – for sharing with other researchers

Advantages of the LifeGuide easy to quickly modify interventions (e.g. during development, after feedback, when circumstances change), speeds up modification/evaluation cycle reduces time and costs caused by duplication of programming for each intervention open source, free – opens up use by new researchers, developing countries, allows collaborative development facilitates sharing interventions/components, allowing modification for different contexts (e.g. translation into different languages, adding context-specific advice)

What can you do in LifeGuide?  Deliver tailored advice based on diagnostic questions, charted progress Create questionnaires, change look and feel, add images and videos, graphs of users’ progress over time Send automated emails and text messages (e.g. reminders) Provide social support (e.g. discussion board, forums)

What can you do in LifeGuide? screening and multi-user registration stratified randomisation automated baseline and follow-up assessment monitoring throughput and adherence (all website usage recorded in detail) output all data to Excel, SPSS etc.

The LifeGuide Community Download software and help materials Support from other users - networks of researchers, forum, demos of how to use different logic functions Collaboration and supervision – share and discuss interventions with own research team, work together on interventions (e.g. translating into other languages) Dissemination – share and discuss interventions with wider e-health community (demo interventions) Testing with end-users

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