Intervention Functionality

Intervention goals, theoretical background, social support, intervention structure, and performed quality.

Intervention Goals

POSITIVE

  • Individualized or timely feedback

  • Remotely consultation with HCPs

    Provide sufficient health information

NEGATIVE

  • Be forced to share data with HCPs, which is undesired by patient

  • Under long-term video-based monitoring

DOUBLE-EDGED

  • Remote data monitoring

  • Self-management support

  • Health information provision and patient education

  • Shared decision-making

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Social support

POSITIVE

  • Interact with a real human being

  • Regular and continuous patient-to-physician interaction

  • Connect with peers

  • Exchange health information and advice with family and friends

NEGATIVE

  • Replace interpersonal connections with HCPs

  • Lack of physical human contact with HCPs

  • Unable to contact HCPs directly or obtain timely feedback

DOUBLE-EDGED

  • Remote connection

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Performed Quality

POSITIVE

  • Reliability and credibility (eg, owner’s credibility, maintenance, third party verification, research support, involvement of clinical experts in the design process, and empirical evidence for successful implementation)

  • Regulation compliance

  • Flexibility

NEGATIVE

  • Less accuracy of clinical assessments

  • Lack of availability and accessibility

  • Lack of safety and privacy (eg, incorrect intervention dosage and the absence of privacy notifications)

  • Without well-defined or safely standardized clinical indicators

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Intervention Structure

POSITIVE

  • A structured format or regular weekly contact with HCPs

  • Longer duration

  • Flexible interventions

NEGATIVE

  • Structured interventions not tailored to patients’ individual symptoms and preferences

  • Structured interventions that constantly remind patients of their symptoms

DOUBLE-EDGED

  • The intensity, frequency or duration of interventions

  • Prefixed interventions

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Theoretical Background

POSITIVE

  • Presence of multiple underlying theories (BCTsd, EBIse, and persuasive technology)

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