Research/Reviews

Research Pillar 1: Evidence Synthesis of Health-related Behaviour Research

We conduct scoping and systematic reviews of literatures that focus on behaviour or behaviour change. These include reviews of behaviour change interventions, investigations of intervention characteristics and ‘active ingredients’ (e.g. behaviour change techniques, mechanisms of action, mode of delivery) as well as reviews of applications of specific theories/models/frameworks.

On-going reviews

• Implementation intentions for health behaviour change (Cochrane Review)
• Social media interventions for health behaviour change (Cochrane Review)
• Interventions to promote safer and more effective opioid prescribing for chronic non-cancer pain
• Overview of stop smoking interventions among adults
• Feedback interventions for reducing test ordering in ICU
• Use of the Theoretical Domains Framework for assessing barriers and enablers to healthcare professional behaviour change
• Interventions to increase organ donation registration
• Barriers and enablers to organ donation registration
• Theory-based predictors of organ donation registration

Completed reviews

• The relationship between habit and healthcare professional behaviour
• Do theories of behaviour inform strategies for implementation and de-implementation?
• Interventions to increase attendance to diabetic retinopathy screening
• Barriers and enablers to diabetic retinopathy screening attendance
• Combined use of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) and Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF)
• Coping planning for health behaviour change
• Active ingredients reporting in pharmacologic vs non-pharmacologic interventions
• Difficulty and appropriateness of decisioning making by GPs
• Education for healthcare professionals implementing supported self-management for asthma
• Behaviour change techniques and delivery mechanisms associated with intervention effects for promoting healthy eating, physical activity and smoking in low-income groups
• Understanding effects in reviews of implementation interventions using the TDF
• Using the BCT taxonomy to identify active ingredients within trials of implementation interventions