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Behaviour Change in Context to Contain the Spread of COVID-19
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Motivation, Habit, and 1 other intervention for Hand Hygiene. Completed, enrolled 425 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Project BECCCS (=Behavior Change in Context to Contain the Spread of COVID-19) aims to optimise and test a behaviour change intervention to promote correct hand hygiene at key times in the short and long term. The study's specific aims are: 1. Optimisation phase: Identify the most effective combination and sequence of three different intervention modules (habit, motivation, social norms), and to assess usability and fidelity measures in order to optimise the intervention 2. Evaluation phase: Test the final intervention against an active control group (basic app content including "Federal Office of Public Health" advice)
Study Details
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Interventions
The key constructs targeted by the motivational module are attitudes towards the target behavior, risk perception, outcome expectancies and self-efficacy. The intervention includes the following techniques: information about health consequences, salience of consequences, goal setting (behavior), problem solving, verbal persuasion about capabilities, focus on past success (Michie et al., 2013)
The goal of the habit module is to guide participants to perform correct hand hygiene at self-selected key times repeatedly. The aim is that the behavior will be translated into a habit. The intervention includes the following techniques: Information about antecedents, self-monitoring of behavior, action planning, prompts/cues, habit formation, behavioral practice/ rehearsal, prompts/cues (physical cue) (Michie et al., 2013).
The key constructs targeted by the social module are perceived norms including descriptive norms and injunctive norm. The intervention includes the following techniques: Monitoring of behavior by others, social incentive, social comparison, social reward, restructuring the physical environment, information about others approval, credible source, information about health consequences, feedback on behavior (Michie et al., 2013).