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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Vera Araujo-SoaresORCiD, Dr Justin Presseau, Dr Angela Rodrigues, Professor Falko Sniehotta
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More people than ever are living longer with chronic conditions such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Behaviour change for effective self-management can improve health outcomes and quality of life in people living with such chronic illnesses. The science of developing behaviour change interventions with impact for patients aims to optimize the reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation and maintenance of interventions and rigorous evaluation of outcomes and processes of behaviour change. The development of new services and technologies offers opportunities to enhance the scope of delivery of interventions to support behaviour change and self-management at scale. Herein, we review key contemporary approaches to intervention development, provide a critical overview and integrate these approaches into a pragmatic, user-friendly framework to rigorously guide decision making in behaviour change intervention development. Moreover, we highlight novel emerging methods for rapid and agile intervention development. On-going progress in the science of intervention development is needed to remain in step with such new developments and to continue to leverage behavioural science’s capacity to contribute to optimizing interventions, modify behaviour and facilitate self-management in individuals living with chronic illness.
Author(s): Araújo-Soares V, Hankonen N, Presseau J, Rodrigues AM, Sniehotta FF
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: European Psychologist
Year: 2019
Volume: 24
Issue: 1
Pages: 7-25
Print publication date: 01/01/2019
Online publication date: 16/08/2018
Acceptance date: 19/04/2018
Date deposited: 26/07/2018
ISSN (print): 1016-9040
ISSN (electronic): 1878-531X
Publisher: Hogrefe Publishing
URL: https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000330
DOI: 10.1027/1016-9040/a000330
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