App development process
MOHR
The BeBo team was composed of researchers and practitioners in health promotion, breastfeeding, infant nutrition, and maternal and child health care with experience in developing infant feeding guidelines from both Vietnam and Australia together with a software developer and a designer. The team had weekly meetings over the internet to review the development of the intervention.The development process was adapted from the behavioral intervention technology model to ensure replicability [Establishing the intervention aims (WHY): (a) to increase breastfeeding rates (b) be able to evaluate its effectiveness in improving breastfeeding rates through a randomized controlled trial.Selecting behavioral strategies to improve knowledge of mothers and aid shared decision (HOW): (a) to improve knowledge and enhance breastfeeding self-efficacy among mothers, (b) to promote shared information and involvement in decision-making on exclusive breastfeeding to family members and healthcare providers.Designing app elements to deliver selected behavioral strategies (WHAT): We identified the main messages delivered in form of push notifications. This element was the most important part of the success of the intervention [Defining when and under what conditions the app would be used (WHEN): time for installing the app, frequency and timing for generating push notifications, and expected information in the library content.Combining both the behavioral intervention technology model for developing the app [Process for developing BeBo mobile app, adapted from Mohr and Abroms [