TY - CHAP

T1 - Towards measuring user engagement in internet interventions for common mental disorders

T2 - 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction - HCI 2012

AU - Kleine Stegemann, Stefan

AU - Ebenfeld, Lara

AU - Thiart, Hanne

AU - Berking, Matthias

AU - Funk, Burkhardt

N1 - Conference code: 26

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - Internet interventions for common mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety disorder, have become popular in research and are now gradually implemented in practice. However, many interventions suffer from low adherence of users which in turn leads to reduced effectiveness. In this context, research on adherence has frequently outlined the need for a better understanding of user engagement. To this end, our goal is to adapt, translate and validate a questionnaire for user engagement and use this questionnaire in several randomised controlled trials. From the results, we hope to get insights into how user engagement affects adherence and therapy success.

AB - Internet interventions for common mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety disorder, have become popular in research and are now gradually implemented in practice. However, many interventions suffer from low adherence of users which in turn leads to reduced effectiveness. In this context, research on adherence has frequently outlined the need for a better understanding of user engagement. To this end, our goal is to adapt, translate and validate a questionnaire for user engagement and use this questionnaire in several randomised controlled trials. From the results, we hope to get insights into how user engagement affects adherence and therapy success.

KW - Psychology

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

T3 - Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

BT - Proceedings of HCI2012 - People & Computers XXVI

PB - BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT

Y2 - 12 September 2012 through 14 September 2012

ER -