Evaluation of personalized treatment goals on engagement of SMI patients with an mHealth app

Lorenzo James; Jordi M.A. van Heugten; Pieter Van Gorp; Raoul C.Y. Nuijten; Barbara Montagne; Muriel Hagenaars; Lily E. Frank

doi:10.1109/BIBM55620.2022.9995714

Evaluation of personalized treatment goals on engagement of SMI patients with an mHealth app

Lorenzo James, Jordi M.A. van Heugten, Pieter Van Gorp, Raoul C.Y. Nuijten, Barbara Montagne, Muriel Hagenaars, Lily E. Frank

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Abstract

Mobile health (mhealth) tools are regularly used in a wide range of mental health domains to assess and monitor patients, potentially increasing patient engagement. Recent studies demonstrated that tailored approaches provide better results than generic approaches.
However, the effectiveness of tailoring has not yet been investigated empirically for patients with severe mental illnesses (SMIs). It also remains unclear how personalized goals, which are critical from a treatment point of view, impact engagement. Therefore, we designed a novel mHealth tool to increase SMI patient engagement with their personal goals which we evaluated empirically. We designed a two-period, two-arm within-subject crossover study in which 4 participants were exposed to personalized and non-personalized behavioral goals. Contrary to expectations, personalized behavioral goals did not have a significant impact on engagement levels. When considering our participant feedback and also in the context of flow theory, we rationalized that our goal personalization strategy was too static for SMI patients. Therefore, in our future work, we will investigate dynamic strategies that adapt goal difficulty over time.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022
Editors	Donald Adjeroh, Qi Long, Xinghua Shi, Fei Guo, Xiaohua Hu, Srinivas Aluru, Giri Narasimhan, Jianxin Wang, Mingon Kang, Ananda M. Mondal, Jin Liu
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	1568-1573
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-6654-6819-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM55620.2022.9995714
Publication status	Published - 2 Jan 2023
Event	2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) - Caesers Palace, Las Vegas, United States Duration: 6 Dec 2022 → 9 Dec 2022 Conference number: 15 https://ieeebibm.org/BIBM2022/

Conference

Conference	2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)
Abbreviated title	BIBM 2022
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas
Period	6/12/22 → 9/12/22
Internet address	https://ieeebibm.org/BIBM2022/

Keywords

mHealth
personalization
goal setting
engagement
severe mental illness
FACT

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James, L., van Heugten, J. M. A., Van Gorp, P., Nuijten, R. C. Y., Montagne, B., Hagenaars, M., & Frank, L. E. (2023). Evaluation of personalized treatment goals on engagement of SMI patients with an mHealth app. In D. Adjeroh, Q. Long, X. Shi, F. Guo, X. Hu, S. Aluru, G. Narasimhan, J. Wang, M. Kang, A. M. Mondal, & J. Liu (Eds.), Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022 (pp. 1568-1573). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM55620.2022.9995714

James, Lorenzo ; van Heugten, Jordi M.A. ; Van Gorp, Pieter et al. / Evaluation of personalized treatment goals on engagement of SMI patients with an mHealth app. Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022. editor / Donald Adjeroh ; Qi Long ; Xinghua Shi ; Fei Guo ; Xiaohua Hu ; Srinivas Aluru ; Giri Narasimhan ; Jianxin Wang ; Mingon Kang ; Ananda M. Mondal ; Jin Liu. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023. pp. 1568-1573

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Evaluation of personalized treatment goals on engagement of SMI patients with an mHealth app. / James, Lorenzo; van Heugten, Jordi M.A.; Van Gorp, Pieter et al.
Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022. ed. / Donald Adjeroh; Qi Long; Xinghua Shi; Fei Guo; Xiaohua Hu; Srinivas Aluru; Giri Narasimhan; Jianxin Wang; Mingon Kang; Ananda M. Mondal; Jin Liu. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023. p. 1568-1573.

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