Kei Long Cheung

@keilongcheung.bsky.social

Public health researcher at Brunel University London. Behaviour change, Intervention Mapping, implementation science and health promotion. Research, teaching and turning evidence into practice. Also making music as Fluffy K.

An important point. Small effects may reflect what was tested, not the limits of behaviour change interventions. We also need to examine whether the selected methods were appropriate, their conditions for effectiveness were preserved and the intervention was implemented as intended.

Kristian Steensen Nielsen@kristiansn89.bsky.social · 2w ago

🎯 What should we expect from behavior change interventions? Growing evidence suggests that most behavior change interventions have small effects on behavior. I regularly hear fellow behavioral scientists understandably feeling discouraged by this. But should we be discouraged? Not necessarily.🧵

Behaviour change papers often identify determinants and then list intervention components, without showing the reasoning behind them. Intervention Mapping makes those links explicit. But how much detail is enough to make an intervention understandable and replicable without overwhelming the paper?

Hi, new here! I’m Kei, working in behaviour change research and health promotion. Looking forward to connecting with others interested in behaviour science, intervention design, or even creative projects. Let’s chat!

Very interesting read. Quite relatable, too. I may have been guilty of trying to research barriers and enablers as well – almost always, barriers we identified were also enablers in a different context, and vice versa. The more in-depth approach proposed here is helpful

Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2y ago

Loving this paper 'Rethinking barriers and enablers'. How many thousands of weak research studies have reduced complex change to 'identifying and addressing barriers and enablers'? Here's how to do better! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....