Calling Madingley SAPC 2019 delegates: Join Dr Katerina Kassavou and the Behavioural Science Group from the University of Cambridge at our interactive workshop on digital interventions to support medication adherence in primary care. Research into digital interventions to support patients’ positive behaviour change is growing fast with implications across all areas of behavioural health research […]
Targeting parental attitudes does not reduce adolescents’ alcohol use, according to a study of the ‘Effekt’ alcohol prevention program in Estonia
An alcohol prevention program that was implemented in Estonia to try to tackle high rates of alcohol use amongst adolescents does not appear to make any significant difference to the young people’s alcohol use, according to a randomised controlled trial amongst 985 fifth-graders and their parents. Alcohol use is very common among adolescents in Estonia […]
Meet the BSG Team: Mariliis Tael-Öeren
Meet PhD student Mariliis Tael-Öeren – the first in our new series of getting to know the people who make up the Behavioural Science Group. Mariliis is researching children’s alcohol use prevention in Estonia. For the past seven years she has been working at the National Institute of Health Development in Estonia, where she implemented […]
Online ads show promise for getting pregnant smokers into cessation support
Online advertisements prompting pregnant smokers to take up stop-smoking support reached women earlier in pregnancy than interventions delivered via clinical settings can typically achieve, and at a lower cost, in a new, NIHR-funded study from the Universities of Cambridge, East Anglia and Nottingham. This study, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), is […]
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) interventions change health behaviours
Interactive voice response (IVR) is a novel phone-based platform that can be used to deliver health behaviour interventions. The researchers analysed 15 randomised controlled trials to review the effectiveness of IVR interventions designed to promote health behaviours, such as medication adherence, physical activity, alcohol and diet. The authors conducted additional analysis to identify which Behaviour […]
One in ten stroke survivors need more help with taking medication
Over a half of stroke patients require a degree of help with taking medicine and a sizeable minority say they do not receive as much assistance as they need, according a study published today in the journal BMJ Open. Because of the risk of a second stroke, it’s important that stroke survivors take their medication, […]