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Digital Micro Interventions for Behavioral and Mental Health Gains: Core Components and Conceptualization of Digital Micro Intervention Care

Amit Baumel ORCID Theresa Fleming ORCID Stephen M Schueller ORCID
Journal of Medical Internet Research Vol. 22 No. 10 pp. e20631 · JMIR Publications Inc.
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Abstract
Although many people access publicly available digital behavioral and mental health interventions, most do not invest as much effort in these interventions as hoped or intended by intervention developers, and ongoing engagement is often low. Thus, the impact of such interventions is minimized by a misalignment between intervention design and user behavior. Digital micro interventions are highly focused interventions delivered in the context of a person’s daily life with little burden on the individual. We propose that these interventions have the potential to disruptively expand the reach of beneficial therapeutics by lowering the bar for entry to an intervention and the effort needed for purposeful engagement. This paper provides a conceptualization of digital micro interventions, their component parts, and principles guiding their use as building blocks of a larger therapeutic process (ie, digital micro intervention care). The model represented provides a structure that could improve the design, delivery, and research on digital micro interventions and ultimately improve behavioral and mental health care and care delivery.
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Published
Oct 29, 2020
Vol/Issue
22(10)
Pages
e20631
Authors
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Amit Baumel
T
Theresa Fleming
S
Stephen M Schueller
Cite This Article
Amit Baumel, Theresa Fleming, Stephen M Schueller (2020). Digital Micro Interventions for Behavioral and Mental Health Gains: Core Components and Conceptualization of Digital Micro Intervention Care. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(10), e20631. https://doi.org/10.2196/20631
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