A framework for designing healthy living web-based intervention to promote health behaviour change

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Noorsuriani Maon ◽  
Sharidatul Akma Abu Seman
Keyword(s):  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Healthy Living ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Health Behaviour Change

scholarly journals Initiation of health-behaviour change among employees participating in a web-based health risk assessment with tailored feedback

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ersen B Colkesen ◽  
Maurice AJ Niessen ◽  
Niels Peek ◽  
Sandra Vosbergen ◽  
Roderik A Kraaijenhagen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Health Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Health Behaviour Change

Knowing and actional information in web based weight maintenance services

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 759-781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kreetta Maaria Askola ◽  
Helena Känsäkoski ◽  
Maija-Leena Huotari
Keyword(s):  
Weight Management ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Weight Maintenance ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Health Behaviour Change ◽  
Management Services

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to increase understanding of the role of information and knowledge in the context of health behaviour change. Design/methodology/approach – As internet use in Finland is among the highest in Europe, two Finnish web-based weight management services were analysed regarding their weight maintenance information by using a theoretical approach constructed for the purpose. The approach combines the elements of web-based weight maintenance information and the typologies of knowing and actional information. The approach was tested by examining the services deductively with theory-based content analysis. Findings – The approach indicated differences between the profiles of the two analysed information environments, which focus on factual and tailored information and their relation to pragmatic, provisional and contested knowing and the initiation, maintenance and recovery of actional information. Both services support weight maintenance; the other slightly more due to its rich social features. Research limitations/implications – The examination was focused on the free content of two Finnish weight management services. Further research should include the role of socially interactive information and further testing of the approach with more services. Practical implications – The proposed approach sheds light on the relationship between the types of weight maintenance information and the dimensions of the typologies of knowing and actional information. The approach has the potential to be applied when designing the information environment of new web-based weight management services. Social implications – The approach has potential to be applied when designing the information content of new web-based weight management services to support health behaviour change. The approach could be elaborated further by focusing on enabling social support required in long-term weight maintenance. Originality/value – The study adopted a novel approach to studying typologies of knowing and actional information, thus providing new viewpoints in both information behaviour and organisational knowledge. The study enables further research on weight maintenance information use by proposing a theoretical background.

scholarly journals The development and evaluation of a web-based well-being intervention, for inclusion within an existing health promotion programme, to support and encourage health related lifestyle behaviour change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Menna Brown
Keyword(s):  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Randomised Control Trial ◽  
Health Board ◽  
Lifestyle Behaviour ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Lifestyle Behaviours ◽  
Health Behaviour Change

Unhealthy lifestyle behaviours constitute a significant burden of disease, globally. Web-based interventions offer a means to support individuals in adopting and maintaining positive healthy lifestyle behaviours to address and reduce this issue. The health behaviour change literature offers several useful theoretical models which aim to explain or predict the likelihood of successful, individual level, lifestyle behaviour change. Indeed, research findings have shown that digital health interventions informed by these models are more likely to be effective. However, in practice adherence and engagement to web-delivered interventions is often critically low and is associated with reduced effectiveness and cost effectiveness. This thesis developed an emotional well-being intervention (ACTivate your Well-being), for inclusion within an existing lifestyle behaviour change programme ‘Champions for Health’. Thirty-eight anticipated end-users and six stakeholders contributed to a three-staged Participatory Design project which led to the development of a twelve-week intervention, based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and a new study website. Development was informed by two systematic literature reviews. Feasibility and acceptability were proven in a cluster randomised control trial (ISRCTN50074817) which recruited 142 participants. The majority (74%) enrolled on at least one lifestyle behaviour change module and health improvements were observed. Almost half (43%) of those randomised to the intervention arm enrolled onto the well-being intervention. Adherence was low (7%), no one completed the full 12-week programme. A randomised control trial (ISRCTN18190978) then evaluated impact on health behaviour change, adherence and engagement, and well-being. 182 participants were recruited. Adherence remained poor (4%) however some completed the full 12-week programme. Almost half (49%) enrolled on a lifestyle behaviour change module and health improvements were observed in three modules. COVID-19 limited evaluation. The ongoing relevance of the intervention and website is evidenced through its inclusion within the Well-being In work – In work support service, Swansea Bay University Health Board.

scholarly journals Critical health response in the time of COVID-19: lessons from the past

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-345
Author(s):  
Rabia Ruby Patel ◽  
Tanya Monique Graham
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
The South ◽  
Change Models ◽  
Health Behaviour Change

This article examines the South African government’s response to COVID-19 by exploring the strong emphasis that has been placed on South Africans taking personal responsibility for good health outcomes. This emphasis is based on the principles of the traditional Health Belief Model which is a commonly used model in global health systems. More recently, there has been a drive towards other health behaviour change models, like the COM-B model and Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW); nonetheless, these remain entrenched within the principles of individual health responsibility. However, the South African experience with the HIV epidemic serves as a backdrop to demonstrate that holding people personally accountable for health behaviour changes has major pitfalls; health risk is never objective and does not take place outside of subjective experience. This article makes the argument that risk-taking health behaviour change in the South African context has to consider community empowerment and capacity building.

From Comorbidity to Multiple Health Behaviour Change

2013 ◽  
pp. 152-169
Author(s):  
Amanda Baker ◽  
Sarah Hiles ◽  
Louise Thornton ◽  
Amanda Searl ◽  
Peter Kelly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Health Behaviour Change ◽  
Multiple Health
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