A taxonomy of behaviour change methods: an Intervention Mapping approach | Semantic Scholar (2024)

The protocol and its basic issues are discussed and in-depth examples of its use in- and outside the health promotion field are presented, including empowerment, return to work, safety interventions, implementation, energy conservation, and academic performance.

This study demonstrates how the ERIC compilation and BCT taxonomy can be integrated to specify active ingredients, providing an opportunity to better understand mechanisms of action.

Implementation Mapping provides a systematic process for developing strategies to improve the adoption, implementation, and maintenance of evidence-based interventions in real-world settings.

This systematic review aimed to identify programs that used Intervention Mapping to plan changes in health care professional practice and provided an analysis of the information provided by the programs in the first three steps of the protocol to determine their foundations and rationales of change.

The isolation and classification of MI techniques will provide researchers with the necessary tools to clearly specify MI interventions and test the main and interactive effects of the techniques on health behaviour.

The importance of rigorous theory application and reporting in health-related behaviour change research is discussed and the need for a standardised framework that supports both researchers and practitioners in designing, implementing, and evaluating theory-driven interventions in a concrete and consistent manner is outlined.

It is argued how an increased focus on the enactment of BCTs would help clarify intervention processes, help explain trial outcomes, and potentially enhance intervention effectiveness.

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These findings demonstrate the feasibility of developing standardized definitions of BCTs included in behavioral interventions and highlight problematic variability in the reporting of intervention content.

This taxonomy can be used to improve the specification of interventions in published reports, thus improving replication, implementation and evidence syntheses and will strengthen the scientific study of behaviour change and intervention development.

Peters, de Bruin, and Crutzen (2013) point to limitations with research synthesis approaches that analyse single behaviour change techniques (BCTs) and present an alternative methodology and it will be important when considering the merits of their alternative approach to evaluate what has already been achieved using the full potential of currently available methods.

The TIDieR checklist and guide should improve the reporting of interventions and make it easier for authors to structure accounts of their interventions, reviewers and editors to assess the descriptions, and readers to use the information.

The proposed taxonomy can aid in understanding the concept of capacity and developing methods to support the implementation and sustainability of prevention efforts in novel settings through the use of a taxonomy of capacity.

Intervention Mapping provides the tools that enable the production of descriptions of interventions that reveal not only what is included in the interventions, but also why the intervention is as it is.

Taxonomies of theoretical change methods for environmental change should include combinations of individual level methods that may be bundled and separate suggestions for methods targeting a level or being targeted from a level.

This work focuses on Intervention Mapping, a method for selecting Theory-Informed Intervention Methods and Practical Strategies using Behavior-Oriented Theories used in Health Promotion.

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