Does tailoring matter? Meta-analytic review of tailored print health behavior change interventions.

By S. Noar, Christina Benac, Melissa Harris. Psychological bulletin, 2007

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Personalizing persuasive technologies: Explicit and implicit personalization using persuasion profiles (2015, background): “Noar et al. (2007) conducted a meta-analysis of the effects of tailoring on the success of health interventions based on over 50 published comparisons and derived the same conclusion: tailored interventions are more successful than generic ones.”
Understanding tailoring in communicating about health. (2008, background): “Although this goal of working within a clearly defined causal model is shared with many non-tailored interventions, our point here is that some tailoring strategies themselves aim at more precisely and powerfully influencing particular mediating constructs, and a meta-analysis of tailoring studies m”
What Design Features Are Used in Effective e-Health Interventions? A Review Using Techniques from Critical Interpretive Synthesis (2012, positive): “tailoring based on theoretical constructs is more effective than tailoring based on behaviour, which is more effective than tailoring based on demographic characteristics.(55)”
The Personalization of Conversational Agents in Health Care: Systematic Review (2019, background): “Studies of personalization in health care and medicine have been increasing in number since the early 2000s [22], with growing evidence showing their effectiveness [23-26].”
A Review and Conceptual Framework for Understanding Personalized Matching Effects in Persuasion (2020, methodology): “…of the appeal, or the setting in which the appeal is delivered, “matching” some aspect of the communication to some aspect of the recipient is one of the most reliable and impactful methods of enhancing persuasion (Carpenter, 2012; Noar et al., 2007; Petty et al., 2000; Rothman et al., 2020).”
Opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 for vaccination decisions. (2012, background): “Evaluations indicate that tailored health communication has a small but reliable effect on user health behavior [22].”
Persuasive System Design Does Matter: A Systematic Review of Adherence to Web-Based Interventions (2012, background): “Tailoring, which is widely recognized as an important feature of effective health communication [35, 36], is used in one form or another in 88% of the interventions.”
A Meta-Analysis of Serious Digital Games for Healthy Lifestyle Promotion (2014, background): “…the strongest effects when based on both theoretical concepts (e.g. stages of change, decisional balance, attitudes) and user characteristics (Noar et al., 2007) and performed via dynamic tailoring, in which tailoring is continuously adjusted during the intervention n = combinedsamplesize;k…”
Computer-delivered interventions for health promotion and behavioral risk reduction: a meta-analysis of 75 randomized controlled trials, 1988-2007. (2008, background): “Theories of health behavior change suggest tailoring facilitates behavioral change (Fisher and Fisher 1992; Prochaska and DiClemente 1982) and in non-CDIs appears to have value (e.g., Noar et al. 2007; Skinner et al. 1999).”
Is this for me? How Consumers Respond to Personalized Advertising on Social Network Sites (2015, background): “Two meta-analyses (Noar, Benac, and Harris 2007; Sohl and Moyer 2007) conclude that personalized messages are generally more effective than nonpersonalized messages in terms of being more memorable, more likeable, and sparking behavioral change.”