| Article ID: | iaor20072387 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 42 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 435 |
| End Page Number: | 449 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2006 |
| Journal: | Decision Support Systems |
| Authors: | Liang Huigang, Xue Yajiong, Berger Bruce A. |
| Keywords: | decision: applications |
The Web has attracted considerable attention as an avenue to improve healthcare delivery. This paper describes the development of a Web-based intervention support system (WISS) that helps provide tailored interventions to enhance health-related behavior change. The tailoring strategy is based on the transtheoretical model. The performance of WISS was assessed by a pilot study, a controlled randomized longitudinal experiment involving 366 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Results suggest that WISS can reduce MS patients' medication discontinuation rate and move more patients to a stage where dropout is least likely to occur.