Behavioral Mechanisms of a Digital Health Intervention for Self-Management in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Study

Yibo Wu   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Yang Ni   ^{2 *} , MSN ;   Yang Jiang   ^{3 *} , BSMed ;   Zijie Xu   ⁴ , MPH ;   Hewei Min   ¹ , PhD ;   Ping Chen   ¹ , MPharm ;   Xinbao Gu   ⁵ , BM ;   Bingyang Kong   ⁵ , BM ;   Yadi Gan   ⁶ ;   Pei Li   ⁷ , MMed ;   Mingzi Li   ⁸ , PhD ;   Xiaohui Guo   ⁹ , PhD ;   Xuxi Zhang   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Aijuan Ma   ⁶ , PhD ;   Xinying Sun   ¹ , PhD

¹ School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China

² Wuhu Coach Hospital, Wuhu, China

³ North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China

⁴ City University of Hong Kong, Hongkong, China

⁵ Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

⁶ Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

⁷ PopMed Technology Incorporate, Beijing, China

⁸ School of Nursing, Peking University, Beijing, China

⁹ Department of Endocrinology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China

¹⁰ Department of Social Medicine and Health Education, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China

*these authors contributed equally