Health promotion interventions delivered via mobile phones (mHealth) need to be carefully tailored to end-users to optimize engagement and effects on health outcomes. However, tailoring requires an in-depth understanding of the users’ context and under which circumstances end-users are willing to engage. The aim of this study was to identify and describe how high school students perceive health behaviour change and how mobile phones are used in the process of change. Thematic analysis was used to analyse data collected through 6 focus groups with 21 Swedish high school students (16–19 years). The results showed that behaviour change among adolescents were promoted by having an open approach, being able to be independent, and self-accepting. Mobile phones can provide resilience in long-term behaviour change. These findings may be useful in the development of mHealth interventions, but also for professionals in promoting healthy behaviours among adolescents.
I am a PhD-student with an interest in health behaviours among adolescents and in promotion of healthy behaviours through interventions delivered via mobile phones (mHealth). My research interest involves qualitative as well as quantitative methods. Before my PhD-studies, I worked as a school nurse and that was why I became interested in the public health area of reaching many individuals at a time, and at any place, and across socio economic strata, by use of digital tools to support healthy behaviours. My first manuscript was accepted and published in June 2021. Orcid: 0000-0002-7780-8417.
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