AUTHOR=Alhasani Mona , Mulchandani Dinesh , Oyebode Oladapo , Baghaei Nilufar , Orji Rita TITLE=A Systematic and Comparative Review of Behavior Change Strategies in Stress Management Apps: Opportunities for Improvement JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health VOLUME=10 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.777567 DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2022.777567 ISSN=2296-2565 ABSTRACT=
Stress is one of the significant triggers of several physiological and psychological illnesses. Mobile health apps have been used to deliver various stress management interventions and coping strategies over the years. However, little work exists on persuasive strategies employed in stress management apps to promote behavior change. To address this gap, we review 150 stress management apps on both Google Play and Apple's App Store in three stages. First, we deconstruct and compare the persuasive/behavior change strategies operationalized in the apps using the Persuasive Systems Design (PSD) framework and Cialdini's Principles of Persuasion. Our results show that the most frequently employed strategies are