Department of Sustainable Environmental Health Sciences, Medical School OWL, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Department of Environment and Health, Bielefeld School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Front Public Health. 2024 Aug 12;12:1396958. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1396958. eCollection 2024.
Besides societal and governmental actions to mitigate greenhouse gases, individual behavioral changes are also urgently needed to limit global temperature rise. However, these individual changes have proven to be difficult to achieve in the general population.
We conducted a systematic review in five electronic databases with the aim of systematically depicting the content of interventions that promote climate-friendly behavior in individuals and households in high- and upper-middle-income countries.
We included 25 studies. The analyses included identification of the used Behavior Change Techniques (BCTs) and comparison of their promise ratio. Across our three outcome categories energy consumption, water consumption, and mobility the most frequently used BCT categories are not the ones that are most promising in terms of behavior change.
Based on these results, our recommendation for climate change mitigation interventions is to include components that provide concrete instructions on how to perform the desired behavior , setting goals and commitments , substituting undesired behavior, and practicing desired behavior . Other reviews with similar aims use different wordings, definitions, or degrees of detail in their intervention component labelling which makes it difficult to compare the results. We recommend to use a standardized classification system, like the BCT taxonomy in combination with the promise ratio, which this study has shown to be a suitable tool to classify applied intervention techniques and give an indication of successful techniques.
除了社会和政府采取行动减少温室气体排放外，个人行为的改变对于限制全球气温上升也迫在眉睫。然而，事实证明，这些个人的改变在普通人群中很难实现。
我们在五个电子数据库中进行了系统综述，旨在系统地描述促进高收入和上中等收入国家个人和家庭气候友好行为的干预措施的内容。
我们纳入了 25 项研究。分析包括确定使用的行为改变技术（BCTs），并比较它们的承诺比值。在我们的三个结果类别（能源消耗、水消耗和流动性）中，使用最频繁的 BCT 类别并不是在行为改变方面最有希望的类别。
基于这些结果，我们建议气候变化缓解干预措施应包括提供具体说明如何执行所需行为的组件，设定目标和承诺，替代不良行为，并练习所需行为。具有类似目的的其他综述使用不同的措辞、定义或干预组件标签的详细程度，这使得比较结果变得困难。我们建议使用标准化的分类系统，如 BCT 分类法结合承诺比值，本研究表明这是一种合适的工具，可以对应用的干预技术进行分类，并提供成功技术的指示。
