Changing behaviour, 'more or less': do implementation and de-implementation interventions include different behaviour change techniques?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Decreasing ineffective or harmful healthcare practices (de-implementation) may require different approaches than those used to promote uptake of effective practices (implementation). Few psychological theories differentiate between processes involved in decreasing, versus increasing, behaviour. However, it is unknown whether implementation and de-implementation interventions already use different approaches. We used the behaviour change technique (BCT) taxonomy (version 1) (which includes 93 BCTs organised into 12 groupings) to investigate whether implementation and de-implementation interventions for clinician behaviour change use different BCTs.

Methods

Intervention descriptions in 181 articles from three systematic reviews in the Cochrane Library were coded for

SUBMITTER: Patey AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7905859 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature