Specifying the Content of Behavior Change Interventions Using the Behavior Change Technique Taxonomy v1
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2021-09-17
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Indiana University Workshop in Methods
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Most behaviour change interventions are highly complex with multiple components that may work in an additive manner or interactively. To understanding the causal impact of behaviour change interventions, it is necessary to specify their components as accurately as possible in ways that allow comparison across different types of intervention. This workshop will describe a taxonomy of 93 types of intervention component called ‘Behaviour Change Techniques (BCTs)’ that can be used to specify the content of behaviour change interventions. It will describe the BCT taxonomy, how it was developed, how it has been used, and what the future holds for it.
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Susan Michie, FMedSci, FAcSS, FBA is Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London. Professor Michie’s research focuses on human behaviour change in relation to health and the environment: how to understand it theoretically and apply theory and evidence to intervention and policy development, evaluation and implementation. Her research, collaborating with disciplines such as information science, environmental science, computer science and medicine, covers population, organisational and individual level interventions. Examples include the Human Behaviour-Change Project and Complex Systems for Sustainability and Health. She is an investigator on >15 research projects, including three addressing behaviour and the Covid-19 pandemic. She has published >500 journal articles and several books, including the Behaviour Change Wheel: A Guide to Designing Interventions. She serves as an expert advisor on the UK’s Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behavioural Science (Covid-19), the Lancet’s Covid-19 Commission and a member of the UK’s Independent SAGE. She serves on WHO’s Behavioural Insights and Sciences Technical Advisory Group, is Chair of the UK Food Standard Agency’s Advisory Committee for Social Sciences, is part of NIHR’s Behavioural Science Policy Research Unit, led UCL’s membership of NIHR’s School of Public Health Research and chaired the Academy of Social Science’s ‘Health of People’ project.
Robert West is Professor Emeritus of Health Psychology at University College London. He specialises in addiction and behaviour change. He helped to create the blueprint for the UK’s national network of stop-smoking services and acts as an advisor to government on behaviour change. He has authored more than 900 scientific articles as well as several books including ‘Theory of Addiction’, ‘The SmokeFree Formula’, ‘The Behaviour Change Wheel’, and ‘Energise: The Secrets of Motivation’.
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