Today, we face the challenge of chronic conditions. Personal coaching approaches are neither scalable nor financially sustainable. The question arises, therefore, to which degree Digital Health Technologies (DHTs) are appropriate to address this challenge.

In this module of our CAS ETH in Digital Health, we discuss how to develop evidence‐based digital health interventions (DHIs) that allow medical doctors and other caregivers to scale and tailor long‐term treatments to individuals in need at sustainable costs. At the intersection of health economics, behavioral medicine, information systems research, and computer science, this CAS module has the objective to help participants interested in the multi‐disciplinary field of digital health to better understand the need, design, implementation, and assessment of DHIs, esp. just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs).

After this module, participants will be able to…

1. understand the importance of JITAIs, esp. for the prevention of NCDs
2. understand the design, implementation and evaluation of smartphone‐based and chatbot‐delivered JITAIs
3. discuss opportunities and challenges of JITAIs

The CAS module is structured in two parts and follows the concept of a blended treatment consisting of live sessions and complementary online material. In the live sessions, participants will learn relevant topics. Complementary learning material (e.g., video clips), multiple‐choice questions, and exercises are provided via the online learning platform.

In the second part, participants work in teams and will use their knowledge from the first part of the module to develop a smartphone‐based and chatbot‐delivered JITAI with MobileCoach (www.mobile‐coach.eu), an open-source software platform for the development of digital biomarker and digital health interventions. Each team will then present and discuss the resulting JITAI and evaluation results with their colleagues who will provide peer reviews. Additional live coaching sessions are offered to support the teams with the design and evaluation of their JITAIs, and with the preparation of the final group project presentations.

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