This combination of reach and functionality makes online social networks a promising intervention platform for increasing physical activity.
LifeGuide integrates an intervention platform with a data management system.
LifeGuide is online software that integrates an intervention platform with a data management system.
To date, a text message-based intervention platform has not yet been used to improve sleep habits.
For example, in a physical exercise intervention among adults, intervention engagement, measured by the time spent on an online intervention platform, predicted self-reported behavior change [ 11].
VJS obtained funding, provided technical support in the development of the computerized intervention platform, and reviewed multiple drafts of the final version of the manuscript.
Facebook will be used as the intervention platform as post-partum women are frequent Facebook users [ 25] and participants will be able to log on at a convenient time.
Using a text message-based intervention platform offers several other advantages compared with interventions involving face-to-face contact with participants, including great reach [ 22], cost-effectiveness [ 22], unobtrusiveness [ 22], the ability to collect data in real-time [ 22], and the ability to intervene anywhere, anytime [ 23].
We have developed an internet-based intervention program called TEO (Terapia Emocional Online) that includes two platforms (therapist and patient platform).
But while it doesn't possess the glitz of those undertakings, it does point to the broader mission statement of Verily, to "collect and organize health data, then creating interventions and platforms that put insights derived from that health data to use for more holistic care management".
