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Promoting lifestyle behaviour change and well-being in hospital patients: a pilot study of an evidence-based psychological intervention [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Public Health, 2015
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
openaire   +3 more sources

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]

open access: yes, 2017
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
core   +3 more sources

Behaviour Centred Design: towards an applied science of behaviour change. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
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
core   +2 more sources

Conceptualizing cultures of violence and cultural change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
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
core   +1 more source

Investigating the time-dependent behaviour of Boom clay under thermo-mechanical loading [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
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
core   +5 more sources

Home is where the hearth is: grant recipients' views of England's home energy efficiency scheme (Warm Front) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
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
core   +1 more source

An Exploratory Study of the Relationship Between Financial Well-Being and Changes in Reported Gambling Behaviour During the COVID-19 Shutdown in Australia

open access: yesJournal of Gambling Issues, 2021
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
openaire   +2 more sources

Energy, the Environment and Behaviour Change: A survey of insights from behavioural economics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
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.
core   +3 more sources

Exploring the role of messenger effects and feedback frames in promoting uptake of energy-efficient technologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
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
core   +1 more source

The biographical consequences of protest and activism: a systematic review and a new typology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
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
core   +3 more sources

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