Examining public health practitioners' perceptions and use of behavioural sciences to design health promotion interventions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Behavioural sciences have been shown to support the development of more effective interventions aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles. However, the operationalization of this knowledge seems to be sub-optimal in public health. Effective knowledge transfer strategies are thus needed to optimize the use of knowledge from behavioural sciences in this field. To this end, the present study examined public health practitioners' perceptions and use of theories and frameworks from behavioural sciences to design health promotion interventions.

Methods

This study adopted an exploratory qualitative design. Semi-structured interviews were conducted among 27 public health practitioners from across Canada to explore current intervention development processes, the extent to whic

SUBMITTER: Belanger-Gravel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10186298 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature