A meta-analytic review of the effect of implementation intentions on physical activity

Bélanger-Gravel, Ariane; Godin, Gaston; Amireault, Steve

doi:10.1080/17437199.2011.560095

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“…Findings also confirmed that the important role of forming if-then plans or implementation intentions for increasing health behaviors (for meta-analyses, see (Adriaanse, Vinkers, De Ridder, Hox, & De Wit, 2011;Bélanger-Gravel, Godin, & Amireault, 2013;Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006), and blood donation in particular (Godin et al, 2010;Godin, Vezina-Im, Belanger-Gravel, & Amireault, 2012). The main reason for including an implementation intention condition in the present study was to gauge the strength of the QBE.…”

Section: Question -Behavior Effect Interventions 19supporting

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“…Webb & Sheeran, 2007). These processes (enhanced cue detection, automatization of responding), in turn, improve the translation of intentions into action, as meta-analyses have shown (Bélanger-Gravel, Godin, & Amireault, 2013;Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006). Implementation intentions have also been found to significantly increase blood donation in a sample of novice donors (Godin et al, 2010) and so implementation intentions afford a valuable condition against which to calibrate the impact of the QBE interventions tested here.…”

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confidence: 68%

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Promoting the return of lapsed blood donors: A seven-arm randomized controlled trial of the question–behavior effect.

Godin¹,

Germain²,

Conner³

et al. 2014

Health Psychology

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Objective: The aim of this study was to test key variations in the question-behavior effect against a control condition or an implementation intention condition on returning to give blood among lapsed donors (individuals who had not given blood in past two years).Design: At baseline, 7000 lapsed donors were randomized to one of six experimental or to a control condition. Participants in the experimental conditions were asked to complete a 6-item postal questionnaire assessing: intentions-only, interrogative intention, moral norm plus intention, anticipated regret plus intention, positive self-image plus intention, or implementation intentions. Objective measures of behavior were obtained 6 and 15 months later.Main Outcome Measure: The frequency of registrations to give blood over the next 6 and 15 months.Results: Intention-to-treat analysis of the frequency of registrations (GENMOD procedure, Poisson distribution) indicated main effects for condition (experimental versus control) at both 6 months,  2 (1) = 4.64, p < .05, and 15 months,  2 (1) = 5.88, p < .05. Positive self-image and implementation intention interventions outperformed the control condition at 6 months. At 15 months, standard intention, interrogative intention, and regret plus intention conditions each showed more frequent registrations compared to controls and were just as effective as implementation intention formation. Moderation analysis showed the moral norm and positive self-image conditions were significant for first-time (one previous donation) but not repeat (two or more previous donations) donors.Conclusions: The question-behavior effect can be used to reinvigorate blood donation among lapsed donors, and can be as effective as forming implementation intentions. extends previous work on the QBE in three key ways. First, we examine whether the impact of measuring intentions on subsequent behavior can be augmented by using the interrogative form or by measuring constructs in addition to intentions. Second, we compare the QBE not only to a standard nocontact control condition, but also in relation to an established behavior change intervention (i.e., implementation intentions; see (Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006) for a review). Third, we investigate the moderating effects of whether a questionnaire was returned or not and participants' age, sex, and donor status (first-time vs. repeat). The research focuses on a behavior of considerable importance for public health and on a sample of particular significance in this domain, namely, returning to give blood among lapsed blood donors. Augmenting the Question-Behavior EffectSeveral studies have tested the QBE in relation to blood donation, with mixed results. In the first study in this area, Godin et al. (2008) observed significantly more frequent attempts to give blood at both 6-and 12-month follow-ups among repeat blood donors who were asked to complete a Question -Behavior Effect Interventions 4 questionnaire based on an extended version of the theory of planned behavior (TPB; (Ajzen, 19...

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Promoting the return of lapsed blood donors: A seven-arm randomized controlled trial of the question–behavior effect.

Godin¹,

Germain²,

Conner³

et al. 2014

Health Psychology

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“…A strong evidence base indicates that if-then plans and mental practice are efficacious techniques for increasing habit strength and producing lasting behaviour change (cf. Belanger-Gravel, Godin & Amireault, 2013;Knauper et al, 2014). Recently published protocol from an ongoing randomized controlled trial in pre-diabetic patients indicates that these techniques can be incorporated into interventions in a simple and cost-effective manner (Knauper et al, 2014).…”

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Body Satisfaction During Pregnancy: The Role of Health-Related Habit Strength

Pullmer

Zaitsoff

Cobb

2017

Matern Child Health J

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Body satisfaction during pregnancy is an important determinant of maternal and fetal health outcomes. It is therefore critical to investigate factors related to changes in body satisfaction and to elucidate how body satisfaction changes over time in pregnant women.I examined the relation between two novel factors (i.e., healthy eating and physical activity habit strength) and body satisfaction in 67 pregnant North American women from the beginning of their second trimester (T1) until the end of pregnancy. Strength of healthy eating and physical activity habits remained stable over time, body satisfaction decreased over time, and healthy eating habit strength at T1 predicted increases in body satisfaction from the second trimester to the end of pregnancy, even when controlling for gestational weight gain. Results highlight how increasing health-related habit strength in women of reproductive age may offer protection against low levels of body satisfaction during pregnancy.

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“…Forming specific plans about when and how to act increases the likelihood of performing the intended behavior [23,24] and helps to bridge the so-called intention behavior gap. Planning can be further divided into action planning (specifying when, where and how to act) and coping planning (specifying coping responses for barriers and difficult situations) [25].…”

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Investigating Intervention Components and Exploring States of Receptivity for a Smartphone App to Promote Physical Activity: Protocol of a Microrandomized Trial (Preprint)

Kramer¹,

Künzler²,

Mishra³

et al. 2018

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Background: Smartphones enable the implementation of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) that tailor the delivery of health interventions over time to user and time-varying context characteristics. Ideally, JITAIs include effective intervention components and delivery tailoring is based on effective moderators of intervention effects. Using machine learning techniques to infer each user's context from smartphone sensor data is a promising approach to further enhance tailoring.

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A meta-analytic review of the effect of implementation intentions on physical activity

Cited by 351 publications

References 59 publications

Promoting the return of lapsed blood donors: A seven-arm randomized controlled trial of the question–behavior effect.

Promoting the return of lapsed blood donors: A seven-arm randomized controlled trial of the question–behavior effect.

Body Satisfaction During Pregnancy: The Role of Health-Related Habit Strength

Investigating Intervention Components and Exploring States of Receptivity for a Smartphone App to Promote Physical Activity: Protocol of a Microrandomized Trial (Preprint)

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