Specifying and reporting complex behaviour change interventions: the need for a scientific method

By Susan Michie, D. Fixsen, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, M. Eccles. Implementation science : IS, 2009

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Complex behaviour change interventions are not well described; when they are described, the terminology used is inconsistent. This constrains scientific replication, and limits the subsequent introduction of successful interventions. Implementation Science is introducing a policy of initially encouraging and subsequently requiring the scientific reporting of complex behaviour change interventions.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Health Professions

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Better reporting of interventions: template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide (2014, positive): “A small number have editorial policies stating they will not publish trials unless intervention protocols or full details are available.(26) We encourage other journals to consider adopting similar policies.”
A refined compilation of implementation strategies: results from the Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) project (2015, background): “Second, published descriptions of implementation strategies too often do not include sufficient detail to enable either scientific or real-world replication [1,6], leading some to suggest guidelines for specifying and reporting implementation strategies [1,6,13,14].”
Outcomes for Implementation Research: Conceptual Distinctions, Measurement Challenges, and Research Agenda (2010, background): “Understanding how to achieve implementation outcomes requires the kind of work now underway by Michie et al. (2009) advance a taxonomy of implementation strategies and reflect their demonstrated effects.”
The Behavior Change Technique Taxonomy (v1) of 93 Hierarchically Clustered Techniques: Building an International Consensus for the Reporting of Behavior Change Interventions (2013, background): “However, the poor description of interventions in research protocols and published reports presents a barrier to these essential scientific and translational processes [2, 3].”
Implementation Research (2016, neutral): “…and research reviews have since been published (e.g., Century & Cassata, 2014; Chambers, Glasgow, & Stange, 2013; Durlak & DuPre, 2008; Fixsen et al., 2005; Hall & Hord, 2015; Michie et al., 2009; Remillard, 2005; Rohrbach et al., 2006; Sanetti & Kratochwill, 2009; Weiss, Bloom, & Brock, 2013).”
Antimicrobial stewardship. (2012, neutral): “Behavioral sciences use principles of psychology and sociology, anthropology and economics, to identify and map determinants of behavior to observed practice, and include several models that explain why people behave in certain ways 85,86 .”
Why Is Implementation Science Important for Intervention Design and Evaluation Within Educational Settings? (2018, background): “Personal readiness for change depends upon having the capability, opportunity and motivation to change behavior (Michie et al., 2009; Fallon et al., 2018).”
Use of concept mapping to characterize relationships among implementation strategies and assess their feasibility and importance: results from the Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) study (2015, background): “The science and practice of implementation would be greatly facilitated by a parsimonious nomenclature of conceptually distinct implementation strategies [2, 4–7].”
Developing theory-informed behaviour change interventions to implement evidence into practice: a systematic approach using the Theoretical Domains Framework (2012, neutral): “This will allow for further exploration of the associations between intervention components and intervention effects [38].”
Behaviour change techniques: the development and evaluation of a taxonomic method for reporting and describing behaviour change interventions (a suite of five studies involving consensus methods, randomised controlled trials and analysis of qualitative data). (2015, background): “This process yielded 16 distinct sets of BCTs, as follows (with number of BCTs in parentheses): scheduled consequences (10), reward/threat (7), repetition/replacement (7), antecedents (4), associations (8), covert learning (3), natural consequences (6), feedback and monitoring (5), goals and plannin”
Implementation strategies: recommendations for specifying and reporting (2013, background): “Adopting these guidelines would address many of the current problems that make it difficult to interpret and use findings from implementation research, such as inconsistent labelling, poor descriptions, and unclear justification for specific implementation strategies [9-11,13].”
Methods to Improve the Selection and Tailoring of Implementation Strategies (2017, positive): “Second, to move the field forward, there is a need for researchers to clearly describe the implementation strategies used in their studies, as the description of implementation strategies in published research has been noted to be very poor.(3,92) Proctor and colleagues(3) have suggested reporting g”
The behaviour change wheel: A new method for characterising and designing behaviour change interventions (2011, positive): “The response to this is twofold: these are empirical questions and there is already evidence that characterising interventions by behaviour change techniques (BCTs) can be helpful in understanding which interventions are more or less effective [6,17]; and not to embark on this enterprise is to give ”