TY - JOUR
T1 - Dissemination of a theory-based online bone health program
T2 - Two intervention approaches
AU - Nahm, Eun Shim
AU - Resnick, Barbara
AU - Bellantoni, Michele
AU - Zhu, Shijun
AU - Brown, Clayton
AU - Brennan, Patricia F.
AU - Charters, Kathleen
AU - Brown, Jeanine
AU - Rietschel, Matthew
AU - Pinna, Joanne
AU - An, Minjeong
AU - Park, Bu Kyung
AU - Plummer, Lisa
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Nursing (R01 NR011296).
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2013.
PY - 2015/6/6
Y1 - 2015/6/6
N2 - With the increasing nationwide emphasis on eHealth, there has been a rapid growth in the use of the Internet to deliver health promotion interventions. Although there has been a great deal of research in this field, little information is available regarding the methodologies to develop and implement effective online interventions. This article describes two social cognitive theory-based online health behavior interventions used in a large-scale dissemination study (N = 866), their implementation processes, and the lessons learned during the implementation processes. The two interventions were a short-term (8-week) intensive online Bone Power program and a longer term (12-month) Bone Power Plus program, including the Bone Power program followed by a 10-month online booster intervention (biweekly eHealth newsletters). This study used a small-group approach (32 intervention groups), and to effectively manage those groups, an eLearning management program was used as an upper layer of the Web intervention. Both interventions were implemented successfully with high retention rates (80.7% at 18 months). The theory-based approaches and the online infrastructure used in this study showed a promising potential as an effective platform for online behavior studies. Further replication studies with different samples and settings are needed to validate the utility of this intervention structure.
AB - With the increasing nationwide emphasis on eHealth, there has been a rapid growth in the use of the Internet to deliver health promotion interventions. Although there has been a great deal of research in this field, little information is available regarding the methodologies to develop and implement effective online interventions. This article describes two social cognitive theory-based online health behavior interventions used in a large-scale dissemination study (N = 866), their implementation processes, and the lessons learned during the implementation processes. The two interventions were a short-term (8-week) intensive online Bone Power program and a longer term (12-month) Bone Power Plus program, including the Bone Power program followed by a 10-month online booster intervention (biweekly eHealth newsletters). This study used a small-group approach (32 intervention groups), and to effectively manage those groups, an eLearning management program was used as an upper layer of the Web intervention. Both interventions were implemented successfully with high retention rates (80.7% at 18 months). The theory-based approaches and the online infrastructure used in this study showed a promising potential as an effective platform for online behavior studies. Further replication studies with different samples and settings are needed to validate the utility of this intervention structure.
KW - bone health
KW - development and implementation
KW - online study
KW - theory-based intervention
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U2 - 10.1177/1460458213505573
DO - 10.1177/1460458213505573
M3 - Article
C2 - 26021668
AN - SCOPUS:84930441178
SN - 1460-4582
VL - 21
SP - 120
EP - 136
JO - Health informatics journal
JF - Health informatics journal
IS - 2
ER -