Promoting lifestyle behaviour change and well-being in hospital patients: a pilot study of an evidence-based psychological intervention [PDF]
Lifestyle risk behaviours show an inverse social gradient, clustering in vulnerable groups. We designed and piloted an intervention to address barriers to lifestyle behaviour change among hospital patients.We designed our intervention using effective components of behaviour change interventions informed by psychological theory.
Gate, Lucy +9 more
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The clinical effectiveness of individual behaviour change interventions to reduce risky sexual behaviour after a negative human immunodeficiency virus test in men who have sex with men: systematic and realist reviews and intervention development [PDF]
Background: Men who have sex with men (MSM) experience significant inequalities in health and well-being. They are the group in the UK at the highest risk of acquiring a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
Abraham +213 more
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Behaviour Centred Design: towards an applied science of behaviour change. [PDF]
Behaviour change has become a hot topic. We describe a new approach, Behaviour Centred Design (BCD), which encompasses a theory of change, a suite of behavioural determinants and a programme design process.
Aunger, Robert, Curtis, Valerie
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Conceptualizing cultures of violence and cultural change [PDF]
The historiography of violence has undergone a distinct cultural turn as attention has shifted from examining violence as a clearly defined (and countable) social problem to analysing its historically defined 'social meaning'.
E Anderson +18 more
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Investigating the time-dependent behaviour of Boom clay under thermo-mechanical loading [PDF]
Among the various laboratory studies to investigate the Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical (THM) behaviour of Boom clay, relatively few were devoted to the time dependent behaviour, limiting any relevant analysis of the long-term behaviour of the disposal facility.
Cui, Yu-Jun +4 more
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Home is where the hearth is: grant recipients' views of England's home energy efficiency scheme (Warm Front) [PDF]
This paper reports the results of research carried out as part of the national health impact evaluation of the Warm Front Scheme, a government initiative aimed at alleviating fuel poverty in England.
Allen +29 more
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A change in someone’s financial situation, such as a windfall gain or increased financial stress, can affect the way that they gamble. The aim of this paper was to explore the relationship between financial well-being and changes in gambling behaviour during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) shutdown.
Thomas B Swanton +3 more
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Energy, the Environment and Behaviour Change: A survey of insights from behavioural economics [PDF]
Evidence of climate change is largely undisputed but moderating the impacts not only of climate change but also of resource depletion is a complex, multi-faceted problem. Technical solutions will have a large role to play but engineering behaviour change
Baddeley, M.
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Exploring the role of messenger effects and feedback frames in promoting uptake of energy-efficient technologies [PDF]
The persuasive potential for varying messenger types and feedback frames to increase pro-environmental choice was explored in a 2 (feedback frame: financial vs. environmental) × 5 (messenger type: neighbour, government, industry, utilities vs.
Elmes, David +2 more
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The biographical consequences of protest and activism: a systematic review and a new typology [PDF]
Most research on activist participation has aimed to explain motives to engage in protest and collective action or becoming an activist. The outcomes, for the individual, have been neglected.
Chiriac, E, Drury, J, Vestergren, SK
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