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Welcome to the course

Welcome! Over the next four weeks you will be introduced to the Behaviour Change Wheel framework, a process for designing or refining behaviour change interventions or policies. This course aims …

Week 1 learning objectives

To kick off the first week of the course we will think about how to best define key terms such as behaviour, influence and outcome, and look at how these …

Introducing the COM-B model of behaviour

In this video, Dr D’Lima introduces the COM-B model. This is a simple model of behaviour that outlines the necessary conditions for a behaviour to occur. In order for a …

Choosing a target behaviour

The TRED programme identified many different behaviours in the home environment that influenced the amount of energy that is used. It wouldn’t be practical to develop behaviour change interventions to …

Using the APEASE criteria

In order to make judgments about A, P, E, A, S and E, we need information. We may already have relevant information but we may want to gather more. We …

What are the APEASE criteria?

Having identified potential Intervention Types and Policy Options, the next step is to consider how appropriate each is likely to be for the particular setting you are working in. To …

Identifying relevant Intervention Types

It is important to consider every possible Intervention Type that could potentially be effective for changing the behaviour of interest, even if we later decide that they are not relevant …

Introduction to COM-B diagnosis

This video will introduce the idea of a COM-B diagnosis and explain how we might gather the necessary information to make a COM-B diagnosis of our target behaviour.

Approaches to specifying a target behaviour

The authors of the Behaviour Change Wheel process recommend that a target behaviour is specified in terms of: Who needs to perform the behaviour? What does the person need to …

Definition of BCT

This video explains what Behaviour Change Techniques (BCTs) are and provides some examples for learners. It also explains where more information on BCTs and their use can be found.

Identifying the key influences to change

Once you have collected information about the various Capability, Opportunity and Motivation influences on the target behaviour, you will need to decide which of these to take through to the …