Current issues and future directions in <b> <i>Psychology and Health</i> </b> : Towards a cumulative science of behaviour change: Do current conduct and reporting of behavioural interventions fall short of best practice?
Psychology and HealthPublished 28 September 2007
Dombrowski, Stephan U., Sniehotta, Falko F., Avenell, Alison, Coyne, James C.
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The pressing need for improvements in current standards for developing, evaluating and reporting theory-based interventions is suggested, if there is to be a cumulative science of behaviour change.
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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgement Stephan U. Dombrowski 1, Falko F. Sniehotta 1,2, Alison Avenell 2,3 1School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, 2Aberdeen Centre for Energy Regulation and Obesity, 3Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK James C. Coyne Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Acknowledgement We are grateful to Susan Michie and Marie Johnston for helpful comments on a previous draft.
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