JMIR Publications

ABSTRACT

A significant amount of people who are interested in publicly available digital mental health interventions are not investing as much effort in these interventions as hoped or intended by intervention developers. Digital micro-interventions are highly focused interventions delivered in the context of a person’s daily life with little burden on the individual. Therefore, they have the potential to disruptively expand the reach of beneficial therapeutics by lowering the bar for entry to an intervention and the effort needed for purposeful engagement. This paper provides a conceptualization of digital micro-interventions, their component parts, and principles guiding their use as building blocks of a larger therapeutic process (i.e. digital micro-intervention care). The model represented provides a structure which could improve the design, delivery, and research on digital micro-interventions and ultimately improve care.