Background: Many global health challenges may be targeted by changing people's
behaviour. Behaviours including cigarette smoking, physical inactivity and alcohol misuse …

Background The importance of behaviour change in improving health is illustrated by the
increasing investment by funding bodies in the development and evaluation of complex …

Background Meeting global health challenges requires effective behaviour change
interventions (BCIs). This depends on advancing the science of behaviour change which, in …

Background Understanding links between behaviour change techniques (BCTs) and
mechanisms of action (the processes through which they affect behaviour) helps inform the …

Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers develop interventions to change behavior
based on their understanding of how behavior change techniques (BCTs) impact the …

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses play an important role in summarising current
research on the efficacy of behaviour change interventions and their mechanisms of action …

Behaviour change is key to increasing the uptake of evidence into healthcare practice.
Designing behaviour-change interventions first requires problem analysis, ideally informed …

Background: To advance understanding of intervention effects, and improve theory
development, a methodology for linking behavior change techniques (BCTs) to the …

Background Improving the design and implementation of evidence-based practice depends
on successful behaviour change interventions. This requires an appropriate method for …

In this paper, we introduce the Intervention Mapping (IM) taxonomy of behaviour change
methods and its potential to be developed into a coding taxonomy. That is, although IM and …