Charting new territories in health psychology: a reflection on the EHPS 2022 ‘digital divide’ hybrid roundtable

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This paper reflects on the roundtable session at the 36th annual conference of the European Health Psychology Society titled‘Mind the digital divide: How to reduce social inequalities in digital health promotion?’, chaired by Dr Laura M König and Dr Max J Western. The session was intended to present contemporary evidence on the existence of a digital divide in health behaviour promotion via two brief presentations of recent evidence syntheses by Dr Eline Smit and Dr Max Western, followed by two short talks on potential underlying mechanisms of the digital divide by Professors Efrat Neter and Falko Sniehotta. Finally, we aimed to explore through a panel discussion and an audience workshop how we, the health psychology community, could focus our research on better understanding and addressing this phenomenon. In the following, we will discuss how the roundtable was implemented and which aspects were perceived to be most useful from the perspectives of the organising chairs, presenters and participants, to provide input for roundtable organisers at future conferences.

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ORCID for Ben Ainsworth: orcid.org/0000-0002-5098-1092

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