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Digital Health Reviews (1740) Chatbots and Conversational Agents (748) mHealth for Wellness, Behavior Change and Prevention (3334)

Published on in Vol 25 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/52097, first published .
Embodied Conversational Agents Providing Motivational Interviewing to Improve Health-Related Behaviors: Scoping Review

Embodied Conversational Agents Providing Motivational Interviewing to Improve Health-Related Behaviors: Scoping Review

Embodied Conversational Agents Providing Motivational Interviewing to Improve Health-Related Behaviors: Scoping Review

Authors of this article:

José Mercado1 Author Orcid Image ;   Ismael Edrein Espinosa-Curiel1 Author Orcid Image ;   Juan Martínez-Miranda1 Author Orcid Image
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