LifeGuide is a software package that allows professionals and researchers with no programming skills to create, evaluate and modify web-based behavioural interventions.
Such interventions can:
- give tailored advice, rooted in sound scientific principles, based on the user's answers to questions;
- allow users to plan, chart and check their progress;
- send follow-up messages to users in the form of personalised emails or texts.
Existing applications
The internet doctor
promotes the self-care of cold- and flu-related symptoms. It provides tailored information and advice dependent on a number of factors including the user’s age, general health, combination of reported symptoms and their duration etc.
The PRIMIT study
is an interactive website that provides tailored hygiene advice to households in order to minimise both contracting and spreading of respiratory viruses, including flu, within homes.
Further applications include supporting weight loss, smoking cessation.
New partnerships
For commercial companies and healthcare agencies, LifeGuide offers a cost-effective opportunity to provide the public with 24 hour access to extensive automated information and advice on any problem. The advice can be specifically tailored to address the particular situation, concerns, and preferences of each individual, and intensive daily support can be provided for behaviour change. The interventions created in LifeGuide are easy to modify.
Chief investigator: Professor
Lucy Yardley
Business fellow: Dr
Kimberley Bruce
.