Behaviour change: general approaches

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2007)

NICE - N/A

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Evidence Categories

• Care setting: Family/Home Setting
• Care setting: Community setting
• Population group: Adults
• Population group: General Population
• Population group: Children & Young adults
• Intervention: Changing attitudes and social norms around alcohol
• Intervention: Supporting behaviour change
• Outcome: Abstinence from alcohol
• Outcome: Changes to frequency/amount of alcohol use

Type of Evidence

Guidance

Overview

This guideline covers a set of principles that can be used to help people change their behaviour. The aim is for practitioners to use these principles to encourage people to adopt a healthier lifestyle by, for example, stopping smoking, adopting a healthy diet and being more physically active.

Recommendations

This guideline recommends a set of principles to use as the basis for:

• providing education and training for those delivering them
• delivery of these activities, including one-to-one and community-based programmes and those aimed at specific populations
• evaluation of their effectiveness and cost effectiveness