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Optimizing Health Coaching for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Using Machine Learning: Model Development and Validation Study

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Health coaching is an emerging intervention that has been shown to improve clinical and patient-relevant outcomes for type 2 diabetes. Advances in artificial intelligence may provide an avenue for developing a more personalized, adaptive, and cost-effective approach to diabetes health coaching. OBJECTIVE: We aim to apply Q-learning, a widely used reinforcement learning algorithm, to a diabetes health-coaching data set to develop a …

Authors

Di S; Petch J; Gerstein HC; Zhu R; Sherifali D

Journal

JMIR Formative Research, Vol. 6, No. 9,

Publisher

JMIR Publications

DOI

10.2196/37838

ISSN

2561-326X