scholarly journals Environmental Hazards and Behavior Change: User Perspectives on the Usability and Effectiveness of the AirRater Smartphone App

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 3591
Author(s):  
Annabelle Workman ◽  
Penelope J. Jones ◽  
Amanda J. Wheeler ◽  
Sharon L. Campbell ◽  
Grant J. Williamson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Protective Action ◽  
Environmental Hazards ◽  
Smartphone App ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
User Perceptions ◽  
Behavior Change Wheel ◽  
Shared Information ◽  
And Behavior

AirRater is a free smartphone app developed in 2015, supporting individuals to protect their health from environmental hazards. It does this by providing (i) location-specific and near real-time air quality, pollen and temperature information and (ii) personal symptom tracking functionality. This research sought to evaluate user perceptions of AirRater’s usability and effectiveness. We collected demographic data and completed semi-structured interviews with 42 AirRater users, identified emergent themes, and used two frameworks designed to understand and support behavior change—the Behavior Change Wheel (BCW) and the Protective Action Decision Model (PADM)—to interpret results. Of the 42 participants, almost half indicated that experiencing symptoms acted as a prompt for app use. Information provided by the app supported a majority of the 42 participants to make decisions and implement behaviors to protect their health irrespective of their location or context. The majority of participants also indicated that they shared information provided by the app with family, friends and/or colleagues. The evaluation also identified opportunities to improve the app. Several study limitations were identified, which impacts the generalizability of results beyond the populations studied. Despite these limitations, findings facilitated new insights into motivations for behavior change, and contribute to the existing literature investigating the potential for smartphone apps to support health protection from environmental hazards in a changing climate.

Beyond supervised therapy: Promoting behavioral changes in people with MS

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (10) ◽  
pp. 1379-1386
Author(s):  
Matthew Plow ◽  
Marcia Finlayson
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Randomized Clinical Trials ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Healthy Behaviors ◽  
Behavior Change Wheel ◽  
Delivery Format ◽  
Behavior Change Technique ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
And Training

A critical aspect of many rehabilitation interventions for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) is incorporating strategies that support behavior change. The main purpose of this topical review was to summarize recent randomized clinical trials (RCTs) of rehabilitation interventions in which participants learn and apply skills or engage in healthy behaviors. The Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, and Behavior (COM-B) framework was used to broadly classify behavior-change strategies. The included RCTs varied widely in terms of dosing, delivery format, and types of interventionist. Commonly used behavior-change strategies include education, persuasion, and training. We recommend that researchers and clinicians use frameworks like Behavior Change Wheel and Behavior Change Technique Taxonomy to describe and classify intervention strategies used to promote behavior change. We also recommend more sophisticated RCTs be conducted (e.g. sequential multiple assignment randomized trial and three-arm RCTs) to better understand ways of promoting behavior change in rehabilitation interventions.

scholarly journals Insights for reducing the consumption of wildlife: the use of bear bile and gallbladder in Cambodia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Davis ◽  
Diogo Veríssimo ◽  
Brian Crudge ◽  
Thona Lim ◽  
Vichet Roth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Consumer Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Wildlife Use ◽  
Behavior Change Interventions ◽  
Conservation Organizations ◽  
Bear Bile ◽  
Supply Reduction ◽  
And Behavior

1.Unsustainable wildlife use is one of the leading threats to earth’s biodiversity. Historically, efforts to address this issue have been focused on increasing enforcement and anti-poaching measures. 2.However, recognition that such supply-reduction measures may be inefficient has spurred a movement towards consumer research and behavior change. Here, we used consumer research to investigate the consumption of bear bile and gallbladder in Cambodia. 3.Our aim was to gather key consumer insights such as demographics, beliefs, and the identification of trusted individuals and communication channels, which could be used to underpin future behavior change efforts to reduce the consumption of bear bile and gallbladder. To accomplish this, we conducted 4,512 structured quantitative interviews and 132 qualitative, semi-structured interviews across Cambodia. 4.We found that although the level of bear bile and gallbladder consumption varied across the country, consumers were largely homogenous in their beliefs and influencers. This indicates that behavior change interventions grounded in these results may be effective in any of the eight areas surveyed. 5.We believe our study strategy can be adapted and followed by other conservation organizations to ensure they are capturing essential information necessary for designing effective behavior change campaigns.

scholarly journals Methods of Health Behavior Change

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ildiko Tombor ◽  
Susan Michie
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Direct Methods ◽  
Health Behavior Change ◽  
Systematic Method ◽  
Behavior Change Techniques ◽  
Change Behavior ◽  
Behavior Change Wheel ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Behavior

People’s behavior influences health, for example, in the prevention, early detection, and treatment of disease, the management of illness, and the optimization of healthcare professionals’ behaviors. Behaviors are part of a system of behaviors within and between people in that any one behavior is influenced by others. Methods for changing behavior may be aimed at individuals, organizations, communities, and/or populations and at changing different influences on behavior, e.g., motivation, capability, and the environment. A framework that encapsulates these influences is the Behavior Change Wheel, which links an understanding of behavior in its context with methods to change behavior. Within this framework, methods are conceptualized at three levels: policies that represent high-level societal and organizational decisions, interventions that are more direct methods to change behavior, and behavior change techniques that are the smallest components that on their own have the potential to change behavior. In order to provide intervention designers with a systematic method to select the policies, interventions, and/or techniques relevant for their context, a set of criteria can be used to help select intervention methods that are likely to be implemented and effective. One such set is the “APEASE” criteria: affordability, practicability, effectiveness, acceptability, safety, and equity.

Review of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change, 1972.

1974 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 334-334
Author(s):  
ROBERT C. CARSON
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
And Behavior

Texting teens to promote knowledge, attitude and behavior change for skin cancer prevention

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie D. Hingle ◽  
Aimee Snyder ◽  
Naja McKenzie ◽  
Cynthia Thomson ◽  
Robert A. Logan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Skin Cancer ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Cancer Prevention ◽  
Skin Cancer Prevention ◽  
And Behavior

scholarly journals Protective population behavior change in outbreaks of emerging infectious disease

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evans K. Lodge ◽  
Annakate M. Schatz ◽  
John M. Drake
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Ebola Virus ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Emerging Infections ◽  
Emerging Pathogens ◽  
Susceptible Population ◽  
Zoonotic Infections ◽  
Zoonotic Viruses ◽  
And Behavior

Abstract Background During outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging infections, the lack of effective drugs and vaccines increases reliance on non-pharmacologic public health interventions and behavior change to limit human-to-human transmission. Interventions that increase the speed with which infected individuals remove themselves from the susceptible population are paramount, particularly isolation and hospitalization. Ebola virus disease (EVD), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) are zoonotic viruses that have caused significant recent outbreaks with sustained human-to-human transmission. Methods This investigation quantified changing mean removal rates (MRR) and days from symptom onset to hospitalization (DSOH) of infected individuals from the population in seven different outbreaks of EVD, SARS, and MERS, to test for statistically significant differences in these metrics between outbreaks. Results We found that epidemic week and viral serial interval were correlated with the speed with which populations developed and maintained health behaviors in each outbreak. Conclusions These findings highlight intrinsic population-level changes in isolation rates in multiple epidemics of three zoonotic infections with established human-to-human transmission and significant morbidity and mortality. These data are particularly useful for disease modelers seeking to forecast the spread of emerging pathogens.

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