Blog by Professor Stephen Sutton, Behavioural Science Group Large-scale problems require large-scale solutions. Tackling the ‘Big 4’ behaviours (physical inactivity, tobacco use, excessive consumption of food and alcohol) requires scalable interventions that can reach large numbers of people to achieve a significant public health impact. One promising approach is to use brief interventions delivered by […]
VBI News – prizewinning poster
Sally Pears presented a poster on developing very brief interventions to promote physical activity in primary care at the UKSBM conference back in December 2014. Sally’s abstract was shortlisted as one of the highest scoring poster submissions- well done Sally! See the poster here. More VBI publications and links can be found here. For more […]
VBI New Protocol for Workstream 3
Study Protocol for “Potential efficacy, fidelity, feasibility and acceptability of techniques to promote physical activity for use in very brief interventions in primary care.” (Worsktream 3) now available See more on the VBI Project here More VBI Publications and Links here
VBI trial recruits first participant!
The VBI team is very pleased to announce that the first two participants for the Randomised Controlled Trial were recruited on the 2nd of October 2014. Five practices have now been trained, with a further eleven interested practices to visit. Let’s hope we can keep the momentum to reach our recruitment target – only 1138 […]