“Could the app be tailor-made?” Patients and healthcare providers give feedback on a prototype intervention to support patients with high blood pressure to take medication. The idea of the intervention is to help patients take their medication as prescribed and so help manage their blood pressure better. The intervention is a brief five minute discussion […]
A randomised clinical trial finds a behavioural intervention feasible and potentially effective at supporting biochemically validated adherence to anti-hypertensive medications and at lowering blood pressure in primary care
In this blog, Dr Katerina Kassavou reports that more patients with high blood pressure took their medications as prescribed and experienced lower blood pressure after participating in a behavioural intervention in primary care called the Programme on Adherence to Medication, compared with patients who had normal care. In the UK around a third of adults […]
Many practitioners using very brief interventions with many patients may have a significant public health impact
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 […]