Identifying behaviour change techniques in 287 randomized controlled trials of audit and feedback interventions targeting practice change among healthcare professionals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Audit and feedback (A&F) is among the most widely used implementation strategies, providing healthcare professionals with summaries of their practice performance to prompt behaviour change and optimize care. Wide variability in effectiveness of A&F has spurred efforts to explore why some A&F interventions are more effective than others. Unpacking the variability of the content of A&F interventions in terms of their component behaviours change techniques (BCTs) may help advance our understanding of how A&F works best. This study aimed to systematically specify BCTs in A&F interventions targeting healthcare professional practice change.

Methods

We conducted a directed content analysis of intervention descriptions in 287 randomized trials included in an ongoing Cochr

SUBMITTER: Crawshaw J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10664600 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature