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Preadolescent Students’ Engagement With an mHealth Intervention Fostering Social Comparison for Health Behavior Change: Crossover Experimental Study

Preadolescent Students’ Engagement With an mHealth Intervention Fostering Social Comparison for Health Behavior Change: Crossover Experimental Study

In mobile health (m Health) interventions, the adoption of leaderboards offers an opportunity to implement social comparison and competitiveness as intervention strategies [9]. Leaderboards are a form of gamification, a set of motivational techniques that use game mechanics outside game contexts, to foster participation, engagement, and loyalty [10,11]. Leaderboards may be used to increase participant engagement and are widely adopted as one of the most popular gamification techniques [12].

Raoul Ceasar Yannic Nuijten, Pieter Van Gorp, Tom Borghouts, Pascale Le Blanc, Pauline Van den Berg, Astrid Kemperman, Ehsan Hadian, Monique Simons

J Med Internet Res 2021;23(7):e21202