Complex Behavior Change Interventions for Community Health

ConV2X 2023 CME Session

Abstract

How can community health professionals connect with resident health consumers to encourage positive self care? This goes beyond encouraging physical activity to encompass a range of life style behavior changes with a tailored approach that engages those least engaged with health and wellness and potentially most at risk from acute health risks and longer term conditions such as Type 2 Diabetes. Is the answer purely digital, or does a network of health service managers help drive engagement and better outcomes?

Objectives
• Insight into own practices and the balance between acute and preventative care
• Understand how smartphone technology, combined with incentives, can be used to engage community residents in their own self care
• Learn how to baseline existing behavior and measure change over time
• Gain insights from smartphone derived data and understand how it can be used to identify barriers to change