Leveraging Technology for Multiple Risk Factor Interventions : Comment on “Multiple Behavior Changes in Diet and Activity”

Health risk behavior change research has focused predominantly on a single risk factor, but most of the general population (58%) has 2 or more chronic disease risk factors.¹ Intuitively, interventions that target multiple risk factors should improve the prevention of disease better than single risk factor interventions, but systematic reviews of multiple risk factor interventions have produced disappointing results.² In this issue of the Archives, Spring et al³ provide examples of 2 innovative research directions that have the potential to improve outcomes in multiple risk factor intervention research.