Significance

Despite the potential of highly tailored interventions to innervate health improvements in people with M/SUDs, research to date has overlooked personalization and typically applied personality to predict behaviour (Chapman et al., 2014). By contrast, this study examines to what extent mobile apps designed to detect and change trait vulnerabilities in patients with M/SUDs can reduce drug cravings and associated risk behaviours. Contribution to current research is likely to be significant, as the project:
While the project’s size and focus on people with M/SUDs may limit extrapolating findings across populations (i.e., the cohort effect), the influence of the project is projected to have a wider impact. Personalized mHealth apps are clearly not only relevant to groups particularly vulnerable to M/SUDs such as KPs but also to the broader social spectrum wishing to influence positive improvements to their health.