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Reading Saturday, January 25, 2025 7:41 PM Self-Determination Theory: - Many voluntary behaviours/lifestyle influence our health - Why don’t people do these things? (eating healthy, exercise, no alcohol, etc.) ○ Lack of motivation ○ Reasons for...

Reading Saturday, January 25, 2025 7:41 PM Self-Determination Theory: - Many voluntary behaviours/lifestyle influence our health - Why don’t people do these things? (eating healthy, exercise, no alcohol, etc.) ○ Lack of motivation ○ Reasons for change are not always autonomous § Could feel pressure from others - Self-determination theory (SDT) is an empirically based theory of motivation and psychological development that is especially focused on the basic psychological needs tha promote high quality motivation and wellness, and how they are supported in social contexts. - SDT details how the styles and strategies of motivators such as parents, teachers, coache managers, and health-care professionals can promote or undermine engagement and the positive consequences that follow from it. Motivational Interviewing: - Motivational interviewing (MI) is a counseling style that helps people change their behav by increasing their motivation. - How it works: ○ Identify ambivalence: MI helps people recognize the gap between their current situation and their goals. ○ Elicit reasons for change: MI helps people identify their reasons for change and express them. ○ Build confidence: MI helps people feel confident in their ability to change by affirm their strengths and past successes. ○ Resolve ambivalence: MI helps people clarify and resolve their ambivalence about change. Behaviour Change Techniques: What is A BCT? - BCTs refer to the active ingredients in any behavioral intervention (which we refer-to as 'activities' in our earlier lecture). You can think of them as essentially being the 'menu' of  at es, e viors ming f  Behaviour Change Techniques: What is A BCT? - BCTs refer to the active ingredients in any behavioral intervention (which we refer-to as 'activities' in our earlier lecture). You can think of them as essentially being the 'menu' of options that we have to change behaviour. - A BCT is defined as an observable and replicable component designed to change behavio - It is the smallest component compatible with retaining the postulated active ingredients can be used alone or in combination with other BCTs. - To enable interventions to be evaluated and effective interventions (i.e. those which brin about the desired change in the target behaviour or behaviours) to be implemented, a BC should be well specified. Why Do We Need BCTs? The more specific reasons behind creating a taxonomy of behaviour change techniques are: 1. To allow us to accurately replicate interventions - which is a critical goal for the advancement of science. 2. To communicate more specifically what interventions included so that when people go to use these interventions in the real world, they will know what to do. 3. To allow us to conduct better syntheses of evidence. If we have a common language of intervention components then, when it comes to summing-up the effects of our research and asking questions based on several studies... then we can be way more accurate. 4. To offer a menu to people developing interventions, so they can perhaps develop more diverse (and better) interventions What is The BCT Taxonomy? - It is a grouping of 93 (!) individual techniques, with each technique classified within one o 16 categories. Each of these techniques is a single, observable activity that we could inclu in an intervention. How Do We Use The BCT Taxonomy? - We use this in a bunch of ways. If researchers are designing an intervention, they will go through this taxonomy to help label and identify all of the things they are doing. - When we are summarizing the effects of past interventions, we can 'code' all of the studi that have been conducted in the past and then we can report: (a) which BCTs do research in a certain area 'rely' on? and (b) which BCTs are included in the most effective interventions. Week 3 - Hagger and Weed: The article "DEBATE: Do interventions based on behavioral theory work in the real world?" presents a discussion between Martin S. Hagger and Mike Weed on the effectiveness of behavi change interventions grounded in behavioral theory. Hagger argues that there is substantial f our. and ng CT o h of ude ies hers ior  Week 3 - Hagger and Weed: The article "DEBATE: Do interventions based on behavioral theory work in the real world?" presents a discussion between Martin S. Hagger and Mike Weed on the effectiveness of behavi change interventions grounded in behavioral theory. Hagger argues that there is substantial evidence supporting the efficacy of such interventions in promoting health behavior change at population level. He acknowledges, however, that large-scale effectiveness trials are limited an emphasizes the need for more research utilizing implementation science. Hagger also highlight the importance of sustained investment and advocacy to encourage policymakers to support behavioral interventions. Conversely, Weed contends that there is no evidence demonstrating that these interventions are genuinely effective in real-world settings across entire populations He argues that focusing on individual behavior change fails to shift population behaviors and suggests a paradigm shift towards understanding and disrupting social practices that influence behavior distribution and acceptance within populations. The authors conclude by acknowledg areas of agreement and disagreement, emphasizing the need for further research and discussio on implementing effective behavior change interventions in real-world contexts. ior the nd ts s. ging on