School students are increasingly using apps for health-related purposes, either on their own or when recommended by psychologists or counsellors, as apps offer a way to assist students to change their behaviour. However, there is a growing need for psychologists and counsellors to be able to evaluate the quality and usefulness of such apps to effect behaviour change. This study was therefore undertaken to identify methods by which school psychologists and counsellors could evaluate health-related apps for clinical use or research purposes. After examining 15 studies of apps that met the inclusion criteria, it was clear that researchers used a number of taxonomies to evaluate the apps. There were seven taxonomies identified, of which five were generalisable to all health conditions, with the behaviour change technique (BCT) taxonomy being the most comprehensive, containing 13 key behaviour strategies. Despite the utility of the taxonomies to identify the amount of behaviour change content within the apps, it was difficult to determine how the behaviour change strategies were measured, thus reducing the ability to predict app effectiveness. Approaches to improving methods by which apps can be developed and evaluated are proposed.

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回顾学校心理学家和辅导员可以使用分类法评估与健康相关的应用程序的过程

越来越多的学生将应用程序用于与健康相关的目的，无论是单独使用还是在心理学家或顾问的推荐下，应用程序提供了一种帮助学生改变行为的方法。然而，心理学家和咨询师越来越需要能够评估此类应用程序的质量和有用性以影响行为改变。因此，本研究旨在确定学校心理学家和辅导员可以评估用于临床或研究目的的健康相关应用程序的方法。在检查了 15 项符合纳入标准的应用程序研究后，很明显，研究人员使用了许多分类法来评估这些应用程序。确定了七种分类法，其中五种适用于所有健康状况，其中行为改变技术 (BCT) 分类最为全面，包含 13 个关键行为策略。尽管分类法可以识别应用程序中行为改变内容的数量，但很难确定如何衡量行为改变策略，从而降低了预测应用程序有效性的能力。提出了改进开发和评估应用程序的方法的方法。