Leveraging context-specific behavioral economic principles to enable patients to change their physical activity patterns
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4227348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brittany V Barber (0000-0002-5239-9805, Dalhousie University), Michael Vallis (0000-0002-0165-5936, Dalhousie University), George Kephart (0000-0001-7376-9695, Dalhousie University), Ruth Martin-Misener (Dalhousie University), Ruth Martin‐misener (0000-0003-4554-7635), Daniel Rainham (0000-0002-3932-2942, Dalhousie University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 13 |
| Pages | 3907-3926 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13591053251317320 |
| PMID | 39972659 |
| OpenAlex | W4407798929 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 52 |
This study explores how context-specific behavioral economic principles could be employed to tailor interventions to support patients' efforts to modify day-to-day routines. Using adapted geo-ethnography techniques, interviews collected in-depth descriptions about facilitators and barriers to physical activity (PA), and contexts influencing decisions about day-to-day activities. Data were analyzed using the COM-B model for behavior change and MINDSPACE behavioral economic principles as coding frameworks. Twenty-nine patients (19 men, 10 women) aged 50-79 participated. Findings indicate patients were motivated and capable of increasing PA but were challenged to identify opportunities to adapt day-to-day routines for increasing PA. Patients described disrupting default routines, increasing commitments, changing the messenger, and introducing incentives as potentially useful behavioral economic principles to improve day-to-day decisions about increasing PA. Patients had insight into potential behavioral economic principles, although they were not previously educated, and were valuable partners in developing research and clinic-based behavioral economic intervention strategies
Behavior change · Behavioral economics · Behavioural sciences · Business · Coding (social sciences · Context (archaeology · Economics · Incentive · Intervention (counseling · Physical activity · Physical therapy · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Physical Activity and Health · Psychology · Applied Psychology · Social Psychology
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