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. 2022 Jul 8;8(3):e36255. doi: 10.2196/36255

Table 2.

Facilitating factors and barriers to intervention uptake and engagementa.


Facilitating factors Barriers
Uptake
  • Weak evidence for demographic factors

    • Greater education

    • Women

    • White

    • Breast cancer diagnosis

  • Anxiety around technology

  • Perceived time burden

Engagement
  • Tailoring and customizability of the intervention

  • Demographic factors

    • Younger age

    • Women

    • Being married

    • Greater experience with the internet

  • Email messages and reminders

  • Difficulties with technology

  • Participant clinical profile

    • Greater fatalism

    • Poorer coping with anxiety

    • Less impairment caused by pain

  • Perceived time burden

  • Lack of satisfaction with the intervention

aOwing to the paucity of relevant quantitative data in the included reviews, the factors influencing uptake and engagement were identified by extracting narrative syntheses from each review.