1. 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
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2. 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)

3. Introduction to internet-delivered health-care interventions
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4. 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

5. 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

6. 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)

7. 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
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8. Introduction to LifeGuide New software that allows YOU to create internet-delivered health-care interventions
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9. 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

10. 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

11. 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)

12. 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 s and text messages (e.g. reminders)
Provide social support (e.g. discussion board, forums)

13. 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.

14. 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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