Implementation intention and planning interventions in Health Psychology: Recommendations from the Synergy Expert Group for research and practice |
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| Authors: | Martin S. Hagger John de Wit Yael Benyamini Silke Burkert Pier-Eric Chamberland |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine, School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia;2. School of Applied Psychology and Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia;3. School of Human, Health and Social Sciences, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia;4. Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, Department of Sport Sciences, University of Jyv?skyl?, Jyv?skyl?, Finlandmartin.hagger@curtin.edu.au;6. Centre for Social Research in Health, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;7. Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel;8. Institut für Medizinische Psychologie, Charité Universit?tsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany;9. Département de psychologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Canada |
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| Abstract: | The current article details a position statement and recommendations for future research and practice on planning and implementation intentions in health contexts endorsed by the Synergy Expert Group. The group comprised world-leading researchers in health and social psychology and behavioural medicine who convened to discuss priority issues in planning interventions in health contexts and develop a set of recommendations for future research and practice. The expert group adopted a nominal groups approach and voting system to elicit and structure priority issues in planning interventions and implementation intentions research. Forty-two priority issues identified in initial discussions were further condensed to 18 key issues, including definitions of planning and implementation intentions and 17 priority research areas. Each issue was subjected to voting for consensus among group members and formed the basis of the position statement and recommendations. Specifically, the expert group endorsed statements and recommendations in the following areas: generic definition of planning and specific definition of implementation intentions, recommendations for better testing of mechanisms, guidance on testing the effects of moderators of planning interventions, recommendations on the social aspects of planning interventions, identification of the preconditions that moderate effectiveness of planning interventions and recommendations for research on how people use plans. |
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| Keywords: | implementation intentions planning volition if-then plans goal striving cues-to-action |
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