The role of informational feedback as a game mechanic on user perceptions, attitudes and the intention to continue using a gamified Health Behaviour Change Support System

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Sebastian Joy Panattil ◽  
Anoop George ◽  
Manu Melwin Joy
Keyword(s):  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Support System ◽  
User Perceptions ◽  
Health Behaviour Change ◽  
Intention To Continue

Knowing and actional information in web based weight maintenance services

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 759-781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kreetta Maaria Askola ◽  
Helena Känsäkoski ◽  
Maija-Leena Huotari
Keyword(s):  
Weight Management ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Weight Maintenance ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Health Behaviour Change ◽  
Management Services

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to increase understanding of the role of information and knowledge in the context of health behaviour change. Design/methodology/approach – As internet use in Finland is among the highest in Europe, two Finnish web-based weight management services were analysed regarding their weight maintenance information by using a theoretical approach constructed for the purpose. The approach combines the elements of web-based weight maintenance information and the typologies of knowing and actional information. The approach was tested by examining the services deductively with theory-based content analysis. Findings – The approach indicated differences between the profiles of the two analysed information environments, which focus on factual and tailored information and their relation to pragmatic, provisional and contested knowing and the initiation, maintenance and recovery of actional information. Both services support weight maintenance; the other slightly more due to its rich social features. Research limitations/implications – The examination was focused on the free content of two Finnish weight management services. Further research should include the role of socially interactive information and further testing of the approach with more services. Practical implications – The proposed approach sheds light on the relationship between the types of weight maintenance information and the dimensions of the typologies of knowing and actional information. The approach has the potential to be applied when designing the information environment of new web-based weight management services. Social implications – The approach has potential to be applied when designing the information content of new web-based weight management services to support health behaviour change. The approach could be elaborated further by focusing on enabling social support required in long-term weight maintenance. Originality/value – The study adopted a novel approach to studying typologies of knowing and actional information, thus providing new viewpoints in both information behaviour and organisational knowledge. The study enables further research on weight maintenance information use by proposing a theoretical background.

scholarly journals The future of health behaviour change interventions: Opportunities for open science and personality research

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daryl Brian O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Health Behaviour Change ◽  
Personality Research

Conclusion: To summarise, understanding, predicting and changing self-regulation processes will continue to be a central concern for health psychology and related disciplines. There is a real opportunity to improve the robustness of the health behaviour change evidence base by continuing to embrace the principles of Open Science together with investigating how individual differences and personality traits interact with these interventions. Future research should adopt more open, transparent and reproducible scientific practices and explore the role of individuals differences variables such as personality in order to provide a fuller understanding of when, where and how self-regulation processes are effective.

scholarly journals Critical health response in the time of COVID-19: lessons from the past

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-345
Author(s):  
Rabia Ruby Patel ◽  
Tanya Monique Graham
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
The South ◽  
Change Models ◽  
Health Behaviour Change

This article examines the South African government’s response to COVID-19 by exploring the strong emphasis that has been placed on South Africans taking personal responsibility for good health outcomes. This emphasis is based on the principles of the traditional Health Belief Model which is a commonly used model in global health systems. More recently, there has been a drive towards other health behaviour change models, like the COM-B model and Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW); nonetheless, these remain entrenched within the principles of individual health responsibility. However, the South African experience with the HIV epidemic serves as a backdrop to demonstrate that holding people personally accountable for health behaviour changes has major pitfalls; health risk is never objective and does not take place outside of subjective experience. This article makes the argument that risk-taking health behaviour change in the South African context has to consider community empowerment and capacity building.

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