Corker Elizabeth, Marques Marta M, Johnston Marie, West Robert, Hastings Janna, Michie Susan
Centre for Behaviour Change, University College London, London, UK.
Clinical and Applied Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Jan 20;7:211. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18002.2. eCollection 2022.
To build cumulative evidence about what works in behaviour change interventions, efforts have been made to develop classification systems for specifying the content of interventions. The Behaviour Change Techniques (BCT) Taxonomy v1 (BCTTv1) is one of the most widely used classifications of behaviour change techniques across a variety of behaviours. The BCTTv1 was intentionally named version 1 to allow for further revisions to the taxonomy. This study aimed to gather data to improve the BCTTv1 and provide recommendations for developing it into a more elaborated knowledge structure, an ontology. Feedback from users of BCTTv1 about limitations and proposed improvements was collected through the BCT website, user survey, researchers and experts involved in the Human Behaviour-Change Project, and a consultation. In addition, relevant published research reports and other classification systems of BCTs were analysed. These data were synthesised to produce recommendations to inform the development of an ontology of BCTs. A total of 282 comments from six sources were reviewed and synthesised into four categories of suggestions: additional BCTs, amendments to labels and definitions of specific BCTs, amendments to the groupings, and general improvements. Feedback suggested some lack of clarity regarding understanding and identifying techniques from labels, definitions, and examples; distinctions and relations between BCTs; and knowing what they would look like in practice. Three recommendations to improve the BCTTv1 resulted from this analysis: to review the label and definition of each BCT, the 16 groupings of BCTs, and the examples illustrating BCTs. This review of feedback about BCTTv1 identified the need to improve the precision and knowledge structure of the current taxonomy. A BCT ontology would enable the specification of relationships between BCTs, more precise definitions, and allow better interoperability with other ontologies. This ontology will be developed as part of the Human Behaviour-Change Project.
为了积累关于行为改变干预措施中有效方法的证据,人们努力开发分类系统以明确干预措施的内容。行为改变技术(BCT)分类法v1(BCTTv1)是针对各种行为的行为改变技术最广泛使用的分类之一。BCTTv1被特意命名为版本1,以便对该分类法进行进一步修订。本研究旨在收集数据以改进BCTTv1,并为将其发展成更详尽的知识结构即本体提供建议。通过BCT网站、用户调查、参与人类行为改变项目的研究人员和专家以及一次咨询,收集了BCTTv1用户关于局限性和改进建议的反馈。此外,还分析了相关的已发表研究报告和其他BCT分类系统。综合这些数据以提出建议,为BCT本体的开发提供参考。共审查了来自六个来源的282条评论,并将其综合为四类建议:新增BCT、特定BCT标签和定义的修订、分组的修订以及总体改进。反馈表明,在从标签、定义和示例中理解和识别技术、BCT之间的区别和关系以及了解它们在实际中的样子方面存在一些不清晰之处。此次分析得出了三项改进BCTTv1的建议:审查每个BCT的标签和定义、BCT的16个分组以及说明BCT的示例。对BCTTv1反馈的此次审查确定了改进当前分类法的精确性和知识结构的必要性。一个BCT本体将能够明确BCT之间的关系、给出更精确的定义,并实现与其他本体更好的互操作性。该本体将作为人类行为改变项目的一部分来开发。