Web-based intervention support system for health promotion

  • Authors:
  • Huigang Liang;Yajiong Xue;Bruce A. Berger

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Technology and Operations Management, Florida Atlantic University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL;College of Business Administration, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI;Department of Pharmacy Care Systems, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

  • Venue:
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The Web has attracted considerable attention as an avenue to improve healthcare delivery. This paper describes the development of a Web-based intervention support system (WISS) that helps provide tailored interventions to enhance health-related behavior change. The tailoring strategy is based on the transtheoretical model (TTM). The performance of WISS was assessed by a pilot study, a controlled randomized longitudinal experiment involving 366 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Results suggest that WISS can reduce MS patients' medication discontinuation rate and move more patients to a stage where dropout is least likely to occur.