TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhancing the translation of health behaviour change research into practice
T2 - A selective conceptual review of the synergy between implementation science and health psychology
AU - Presseau, Justin
AU - Byrne-Davis, Lucie M T
AU - Hotham, Sarah
AU - Lorencatto, Fabiana
AU - Potthoff, Sebastian
AU - Atkinson, Lou
AU - Bull, Eleanor
AU - Dima, Alexandra L
AU - van Dongen, Anne
AU - French, David
AU - Hankonen, Nelli
AU - Hart, Jo
AU - Ten Hoor, Gill
AU - Hudson, Kristian
AU - Kwasnicka, Dominika
AU - van Lieshout, Sanne
AU - McSharry, Jennifer
AU - Olander, Ellinor K
AU - Powell, Rachael
AU - Toomey, Elaine
AU - Byrne, Molly
N1 - Funding Information:
Molly Byrne is funded through a Health Research Board Research Leadership Award. This article was developed during the SYNERGY expert meeting as part of the 2017 Synergy Expert Meeting (www.ehps.net/synergy/expert-meetings/). The meeting brought together health psychologists with experience and expertise in implementation science to consider how health psychology has contributed to implementation science to date, and how it might draw from it to move towards greater impact. We are grateful to Andrea Patey for discussions on an earlier version of the manuscript. We are grateful to the EHPS for providing the space for advancing the discussion on the links between health psychology and implementation science. Author contributions: All authors contributed to conceptualising the original idea and goals and aims. JP, AD, LBD, GtH, and ET contributed to the methodology, screening and analysis of the systematic review. JP, MB, SP, AvD, ALD, RP, SH, JH, DF, JMcS, KH, FL, NH, ET, LBD, EB, and GtH led the original draft. JP, MB, SP, AvD, ALD, EKO, RP, SH, JH, DF, JMcS, FL, NH, ET, LBD, SvL, LA, EB, GtH, and DK contributed to reviewing and editing. JP, MB, SP, SH, FL, and LBD provided overall supervision and oversight. All authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022/1/2
Y1 - 2022/1/2
N2 - Health psychology is at the forefront of developing and disseminating evidence, theories, and methods that have improved the understanding of health behaviour change. However, current dissemination approaches may be insufficient for promoting broader application and impact of this evidence to benefit the health of patients and the public. Nevertheless, behaviour change theory/methods typically directed towards health behaviours are now used in implementation science to understand and support behaviour change in individuals at different health system levels whose own behaviour impacts delivering evidence-based health behaviour change interventions. Despite contributing to implementation science, health psychology is perhaps doing less to draw from it. A redoubled focus on implementation science in health psychology could provide novel prospects for enhancing the impact of health behaviour change evidence. We report a Health Psychology Review-specific review-of-reviews of trials of health behaviour change interventions published from inception to April 2020. We identified 34 reviews and assessed whether implementation readiness of behaviour change interventions was discussed. We then narratively review how implementation science has integrated theory/methods from health psychology and related discipline. Finally, we demonstrate how greater synergy between implementation science and health psychology could promote greater follow-through on advances made in the science of health behaviour change.
AB - Health psychology is at the forefront of developing and disseminating evidence, theories, and methods that have improved the understanding of health behaviour change. However, current dissemination approaches may be insufficient for promoting broader application and impact of this evidence to benefit the health of patients and the public. Nevertheless, behaviour change theory/methods typically directed towards health behaviours are now used in implementation science to understand and support behaviour change in individuals at different health system levels whose own behaviour impacts delivering evidence-based health behaviour change interventions. Despite contributing to implementation science, health psychology is perhaps doing less to draw from it. A redoubled focus on implementation science in health psychology could provide novel prospects for enhancing the impact of health behaviour change evidence. We report a Health Psychology Review-specific review-of-reviews of trials of health behaviour change interventions published from inception to April 2020. We identified 34 reviews and assessed whether implementation readiness of behaviour change interventions was discussed. We then narratively review how implementation science has integrated theory/methods from health psychology and related discipline. Finally, we demonstrate how greater synergy between implementation science and health psychology could promote greater follow-through on advances made in the science of health behaviour change.
KW - Implementation science
KW - behaviour change
KW - behaviour change wheel
KW - intervention development
KW - intervention mapping
KW - theoretical domains framework
U2 - 10.1080/17437199.2020.1866638
DO - 10.1080/17437199.2020.1866638
M3 - (Systematic) Review article
C2 - 33446062
SN - 1743-7199
VL - 16
SP - 22
EP - 49
JO - Health Psychology Review
JF - Health Psychology Review
IS - 1
ER -