Table 2.

Common goals of digital micro intervention events, descriptions, and related examples.

Goals/targets	Description	Example
Educational	Didactic material or psychoeducation intended to teach someone something in the moment.	A video teaching a parent how to discuss the importance of a certain behavior with a child. A timely text message motivating a person to conduct a physical activity.
Feedback	Providing information in the moment to reflect an individual’s current state in a beneficial way.	Feedback about how one’s current activity compares to activity at another time, such as you walked 15,000 steps today, which is 5000 more than average.
Change of perspective (eg, reframing)	Tunnel individual’s focus or provoke thought processes intended to engage a person with a different perspective.	An app-based gratitude exercise encouraging an individual to focus on one’s positive attributes, to increase in-the-moment satisfaction [22].
Trigger desired action	Reminder or incentive to get people to engage in a concrete action in the moment.	A notification from a wearable device suggesting that an individual stand [34].
Skill acquisition	Providing support in skill acquisition.	In-the-moment guidance on breathing exercise.
Load reduction of therapeutic-related activity	Enabling the manifestation of a beneficial activity through simplification.	In-the-moment report on calorie intake using a smartphone camera to capture a photo of food.
Symptom relief	Providing relief of negative symptoms.	An app helping a person to identify and perform competing activities to reduce in-the-moment desire for binge drinking.
Social/emotional support	Providing or indicating support from an actual or perceived other.	A text message indicating support or understanding.