The promise and challenge of eHealth interventions

To discuss how health behavior researchers can use the Internet to study and intervene on health behavior.

Describe how the Internet is increasingly able to offer a viable medium for health behavior intervention and the challenges and opportunities inherent in conducting online interventions and research.

The challenges of eHealth include coping with the additional demands of development, finding ways to reach "hard-to-reach" audiences, and maintaining privacy and security while monitoring participant use.

Health behavior researchers and interventionists need to learn to apply eHealth tools to extend their ability to study and influence health behavior.