Mobile Health Intervention Development Principles: Lessons from an Adolescent Cyberbullying Intervention

Mobile health interventions are becoming increasingly popular, yet challenges in developing effective, user-friendly, evidence-based technologyaugmented interventions persist. In this paper, we describe the process of developing an acceptable, evidence-based text messaging program for adolescents experiencing cyberbullying in hopes of addressing some of the challenges encountered by many researchers and developers in this area of intervention development. Participants were 23 adolescents with past-year histories of cybervictimization and online conflict who enrolled in an hour long qualitative interview. Participants were asked to draw from personal experience to provide feedback on intervention content and design. Results focus on the main principles of intervention development for adolescents involved in cyberbullying: listening for the why in interviews, storyboarding to model abstract concepts, and strategies to develop acceptable theory and tone. Design process and final product design are described. The paper closes with final thoughts on the design process of mobile intervention development.

移动健康干预措施正变得越来越受欢迎，然而在开发有效、用户友好、基于证据的技术强化干预措施方面仍然存在挑战。在本文中，我们描述了为遭受网络欺凌的青少年开发一个可接受的、基于证据的短信程序的过程，希望解决许多研究人员和开发人员在干预措施开发这一领域所遇到的一些挑战。参与者是23名有过去一年网络受害和网络冲突经历的青少年，他们参加了一个小时的定性访谈。参与者被要求根据个人经验对干预内容和设计提供反馈。结果侧重于针对涉及网络欺凌的青少年的干预措施开发的主要原则：在访谈中倾听原因，通过故事板对抽象概念进行建模，以及制定可接受的理论和基调的策略。描述了设计过程和最终产品设计。文章最后对移动干预措施开发的设计过程提出了最终思考。