Developing a digital intervention for cancer survivors: an evidence-, theory- and person-based approach

Katherine Bradbury; Mary Steele; Teresa Corbett; Adam W. A. Geraghty; Adele Krusche; Elena Heber; Steph Easton; Tara Cheetham-Blake; Joanna Slodkowska-Barabasz; Andre Matthias Müller; Kirsten Smith; Laura J. Wilde; Liz Payne; Karmpaul Singh; Roger Bacon; Tamsin Burford; Kevin Summers; Lesley Turner; Alison Richardson; Eila Watson; Claire Foster; Paul Little; Lucy Yardley

doi:10.1038/s41746-019-0163-4

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Developing a digital intervention for cancer survivors: an evidence-, theory- and person-based approach

Mary Steele Teresa Corbett Adam W. A. Geraghty Adele Krusche Elena Heber Steph Easton Tara Cheetham-Blake Joanna Slodkowska-Barabasz Andre Matthias Müller

Kirsten Smith Laura J. Wilde Liz Payne

Karmpaul Singh Roger Bacon Tamsin Burford Kevin Summers Lesley Turner Alison Richardson

Eila Watson Claire Foster Paul Little

Lucy Yardley

npj Digital Medicine Vol. 2 No. 1 · Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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Abstract

AbstractThis paper illustrates a rigorous approach to developing digital interventions using an evidence-, theory- and person-based approach. Intervention planning included a rapid scoping review that identified cancer survivors’ needs, including barriers and facilitators to intervention success. Review evidence (N = 49 papers) informed the intervention’s Guiding Principles, theory-based behavioural analysis and logic model. The intervention was optimised based on feedback on a prototype intervention through interviews (N = 96) with cancer survivors and focus groups with NHS staff and cancer charity workers (N = 31). Interviews with cancer survivors highlighted barriers to engagement, such as concerns about physical activity worsening fatigue. Focus groups highlighted concerns about support appointment length and how to support distressed participants. Feedback informed intervention modifications, to maximise acceptability, feasibility and likelihood of behaviour change. Our systematic method for understanding user views enabled us to anticipate and address important barriers to engagement. This methodology may be useful to others developing digital interventions.

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Published: Sep 02, 2019
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Authors

Faculty of Sport, Health and Social Sciences; Solent University; Southampton UK

Joanna Slodkowska-Barabasz

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Andre Matthias Müller

Union Carbide Corporation, Parma Technical Center, Parma, Ohio 44130

School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, UK; University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK

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Eila Watson

Oxford Brookes University Oxford UK

Primary Care and Population Sciences Unit, Aldermoor Health Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton

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Lucy Yardley

Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

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Katherine Bradbury, Mary Steele, Teresa Corbett, et al. (2019). Developing a digital intervention for cancer survivors: an evidence-, theory- and person-based approach. npj Digital Medicine, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-019-0163-4

Developing a digital intervention for cancer survivors: an evidence-, theory- and person-based approach

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