Are interventions theory-based? Development of a theory coding scheme.

By Susan Michie, A. Prestwich. Health Psychology, 2010

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Physiology

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Validation of the theoretical domains framework for use in behaviour change and implementation research (2012, background): “This is also the case where theory is cited but poorly applied to intervention development [9].”
Enhancing the Impact of Cross-Sector Partnerships (2015, background): “A ToC provides critical reflection on the hypothesized causal relations and underlying assumptions of an intervention strategy that results in a sophisticated theory that explains why an intervention might be expected to generate the intended change (Vogel 2012).4 Since we are in the early stages…”
A review and analysis of the use of ‘habit’ in understanding, predicting and influencing health-related behaviour (2014, methodology): “No intervention trial has yet used habit strength to identify intervention recipients, or to tailor intervention techniques (Michie & Prestwich, 2010).”
Effective behaviour change techniques for physical activity and healthy eating in overweight and obese adults; systematic review and meta-regression analyses (2017, background): “if theory relevant constructs or predictors were linked to intervention techniques [15, 94].”
The behaviour change wheel: A new method for characterising and designing behaviour change interventions (2011, positive): “It should also be noted that even when interventions are said to be guided by theory, in practice they are often not or are only minimally [10].”
Enhancing the Impact of Cross-Sector Partnerships (2016, background): “While some argue that higher levels of detail will by definition result in more reliability of the intervention strategy (Michie and Prestwich 2010), others acknowledge that there is a trade-off between detail and the time spent on formulating a ToC (Vogel 2012).”
Behavior Change Techniques and Their Mechanisms of Action: A Synthesis of Links Described in Published Intervention Literature (2018, methodology): “To identify articles in which MoAs were likely to have been explicitly specified, we conducted a forward-search of the Theory Coding Scheme [26] and Theoretical Domains Framework [27, 28].”
Testing theory in practice: The example of self-determination theory-based interventions (2014, methodology): “…presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (Teixeira et al. , personal communication, May 22, 2014), which assessed the extent of theory use in SDT-based interventions using the aforementioned TCS (Michie & Prestwich, 2010).”
Theories of behaviour and behaviour change across the social and behavioural sciences: a scoping review (2014, methodology): “A review investigating application of theory using the 19-item ‘Theory Coding Scheme’ (Michie & Prestwich, 2010), found that only 10% of studies of theory-based interventions reported links between behaviour change techniques and theoretical constructs and only 9% reported that all the constructs ha”
Using the Internet to Promote Health Behavior Change: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Impact of Theoretical Basis, Use of Behavior Change Techniques, and Mode of Delivery on Efficacy (2010, methodology): “Since the publication of the review by Portnoy et al [8], a comprehensive taxonomy of behavior change techniques has been published [13], along with a method for assessing the extent to which behavioral interventions are theory-based [14]; both these developments permit more sophisticated coding of ”