dat.BCT2009 {metacart}R Documentation

A subset of data from Michie et al. (2009)

Description

The complete data consist of 101 studies reporting 122 interventions targeted at physical activity and healthy eating. In this subset of the data, the interventions that include at least one of the motivation-enhancing behaviour change techniques (BCTs) were selected (N = 106).

Usage

data(dat.BCT2009)

Format

A data frame of 106 interventions with five motivation-enhancing behavior change techniques (BCTs).

Details

IMPORTANT: for questions about these data contact Xinru Li: x.li@math.leidenuniv.nl.

References

If you use these data, please refer to: Michie, S., Abraham, C., Whittington, C., McAteer, J., & Gupta, S. (2009). Effective techniques in healthy eating and physical activity interventions: a meta-regression. Health Psychology, 28(6), 690.

An application of (a preliminary version of) meta-CART to this data set is given in: Dusseldorp, E., Van Genugten, L., van Buuren, S., Verheijden, M. W., & van Empelen, P. (2014). Combinations of techniques that effectively change health behavior: Evidence from Meta-CART analysis. Health Psychology, 33(12), 1530.


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