Authors
Susan Michie, Stefanie Ashford, Falko F Sniehotta, Stephan U Dombrowski, Alex Bishop, David P French
Publication date
2011/11/1
Journal
Psychology & health
Volume
26
Issue
11
Pages
1479-1498
Publisher
Routledge
Description
Background
Current reporting of intervention content in published research articles and protocols is generally poor, with great diversity of terminology, resulting in low replicability. This study aimed to extend the scope and improve the reliability of a 26-item taxonomy of behaviour change techniques developed by Abraham and Michie [Abraham, C. and Michie, S. (2008). A taxonomy of behaviour change techniques used in interventions. Health Psychology, 27(3), 379–387.] in order to optimise the reporting and scientific study of behaviour change interventions. Methods
Three UK study centres collaborated in applying this existing taxonomy to two systematic reviews of interventions to increase physical activity and healthy eating. The taxonomy was refined in iterative steps of (1) coding intervention descriptions, and assessing inter-rater reliability, (2) identifying gaps and problems across study centres and (3 …Total citations
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