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Applying the Behaviour Change Wheel to UK Local Authority Policy Documents: A Content Analysis in the Context of Financial Behaviour

Behavioral Sciences, 2023
Local authorities in the UK often try to improve their residents’ financial well-being by promoting changes in behaviour. The extent to which these behaviour change activities are based on relevant theory or evidence is unknown.
Zach Mills, Katryn Wright, Danielle D’Lima   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Marketing and Multidisciplinary Behaviour Change

, 2016
Behaviour changes are the aim of a wide range of disparate fields and disciplines. Examples of ‘behaviour change fields’ include (but are not limited to) education, training, enforcement, infrastructure, technology, urban planning, community development,
Tapp, Alan, Rundle-Thiele, Sharyn
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The Behaviour Change Technique Ontology: Transforming the Behaviour Change Technique Taxonomy v1 [version 1; peer review: 3 approved]

Wellcome Open Research, 2023
Background: The Behaviour Change Technique Taxonomy v1 (BCTTv1) specifies the potentially active content of behaviour change interventions. Evaluation of BCTTv1 showed the need to extend it into a formal ontology, improve its labels and definitions, add ...
Robert West, Janna Hastings, Alison J. Wright, Marta M. Marques, Elizabeth Corker, Lisa Zhang, Susan Michie, Marie Johnston   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reversing the pipeline? Implementing public health evidence-based guidance in english local government

Implementation Science, 2017
Background In the UK, responsibility for many public health functions was transferred in 2013 from the National Health Service (NHS) to local government; a very different political context and one without the NHS history of policy and practice being ...
Lou Atkins, Michael P. Kelly, Clare Littleford, Gillian Leng, Susan Michie   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Specifying how intervention content is communicated: Development of a Style of Delivery Ontology [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

Wellcome Open Research, 2023
Background: Investigating and enhancing the effectiveness of behaviour change interventions requires detailed and consistent specification of all aspects of interventions. We need to understand not only their content, that is the specific techniques, but
Alison J. Wright, Robert West, Janna Hastings, Lisa Zhang, Elizabeth Corker, Susan Michie, Marie Johnston, Clement Veall, Ella Howes   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effectiveness of interventions to change six health behaviours: a review of reviews [PDF]

, 2010
Background Several World Health Organisation reports over recent years have highlighted the high incidence of chronic diseases such as diabetes, coronary heart disease and cancer.
Harris Fiona M, Platt, S, Harris, Fiona M., Jepson, Ruth, Jepson Ruth G, Harris, F.M., Fiona M Harris, Ruth G Jepson, Harris, Fiona Margaret, Tannahill, Carol, Tannahill Carol, Jepson, R.G., Stephen Platt, Carol Tannahill, Jepson, Ruth G., Platt, Stephen, Tannahill, C., Platt Stephen   +17 more
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Developing and using ontologies in behavioural science: addressing issues raised [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2023
Ontologies are ways of representing aspects of the world in terms of uniquely defined classes of ‘entities’ and relationships between them. They are widely used in biological science, data science and commerce because they provide clarity, consistency ...
Nelli Hankonen, Robert West, Janna Hastings, Susan Michie, Marie Johnston, Alison J. Wright   +5 more
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From smoking cessation to physical activity: Can ontology-based methods for automated evidence synthesis generalise across behaviour change domains? [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research
Background Developing behaviour change interventions able to tackle major challenges such as non-communicable diseases or climate change requires effective and efficient use of scientific evidence.
Candice Moore, Emily Hayes, Oscar Castro, Ella Howes, Alison J Wright, Emma Norris, Susan Michie, Robert West   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Socio-economic status and trajectories of a novel multidimensional metric of Active and Healthy Ageing: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Scientific Reports, 2023
Healthy ageing research largely has a unidimensional focus on physical health, negating the importance of psychosocial factors in the maintenance of a good quality-of-life. In this cohort study, we aimed to identify trajectories of a new multidimensional
Olivia S. Malkowski, Ricky Kanabar, Max J. Western   +2 more
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Identifying mechanisms of change in a magic-themed hand-arm bimanual intensive therapy programme for children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy: a qualitative study using behaviour change theory

BMC Pediatrics, 2020
Background There has been much research into how to promote upper-limb skills to achieve functional independence in children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy (USCP).
Daisy Fancourt, Jaeyoung Wee, Fabianna Lorencatto   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source