ImpulsePal: The systematic development of a smartphone app to manage food temptations using intervention mapping.
Samantha B Van BeurdenColin J GreavesCharles AbrahamNatalia S LawrenceJane R SmithPublished in: Digital health (2021)
ImpulsePal is a novel, theory- and evidence-informed, person-centred app that aims to support impulse management for healthier eating. Intervention Mapping facilitated the incorporation of app components that are practical operationalisations of change techniques targeting our specific change objectives and their associated theoretical determinants. Using IM enabled transparency and provided a clear framework for evaluation, and enhances replicability and the potential of the intervention to accomplish the desired outcome of facilitating weight loss through dietary change.