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HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW
Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 140-158Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17437199.2019.1705873
Keywords
Self-efficacy; digital; health behaviour; behaviour change techniques
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- Coventry University Early Career Researcher Pump Priming Award
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This systematic review and meta-analysis indicates that digital interventions have a positive effect on self-efficacy, but it is not clear which behavior change techniques work best in this context. The included studies focused on healthy eating, physical activity, sexual behavior, and smoking.
Self-efficacy is an important determinant of health behaviour. Digital interventions are a potentially acceptable and cost-effective way of delivering programmes of health behaviour change at scale. Whether behaviour change interventions work to increase self-efficacy in this context is unknown. This systematic review and meta-analysis sought to identify whether automated digital interventions are associated with positive changes in self-efficacy amongst non-clinical populations for five major health behaviours, and which BCTs are associated with that change. A systematic literature search identified 20 studies (n = 5624) that assessed changes in self-efficacy and were included in a random-effects meta-analysis. Interventions targeted: healthy eating (k = 4), physical activity (k = 9), sexual behaviour (k = 3) and smoking (k = 4). No interventions targeting alcohol use were identified. Overall, interventions had a small, positive effect on self-efficacy . The effect of interventions on self-efficacy did not differ as a function of health behaviour type (Q-between = 7.3704, p = .061, df = 3). Inclusion of the BCT 'information about social and environmental consequences' had a small, negative effect on self-efficacy . Whilst this review indicates that digital interventions can be used to change self-efficacy, which techniques work best in this context is not clear.
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