May 2024 PMID 38787601

Digital Behavior Change Intervention Designs for Habit Formation: Systematic Review.

Yujie Zhu, Yonghao Long, Hailiang Wang, Kun Pyo Lee, Lie Zhang, Stephen Jia Wang

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The study reviews digital behavior change interventions (DBCIs) that help people maintain physical activity through habit formation techniques.
A systematic search of four databases from 2012 to 2022 identified 41 relevant studies, revealing that self-monitoring, goal setting, and prompts are the most commonly used behavior change techniques.
The review categorizes 32 design strategies for habit formation into target-mediated and technology-mediated interactions, showing a prevalence of explicit strategies while highlighting a gap in implicit design methods.

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