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Methods for environmental change; an exploratory study.

Gerjo Kok¹, Nell H Gottlieb, Robert Panne

¹Work & Social Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands. g.kok@maastrichtuniversity.nl

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Environmental change methods often bundle individual change strategies. Health promoters use motivation and facilitation, while managers focus on self-efficacy and skills for behavior change.

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Area of Science:

Health Promotion
Behavioral Science
Environmental Health

Background:

Growing interest in environmental change methods alongside traditional target population approaches.
Focus on how environmental change methods are composed of individual change methods ('Bundling').
Exploration of differences in methods directed 'at' versus 'from' within an organizational level.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine the 'bundling' of individual-level methods within environmental-level methods.
To investigate differences between methods applied 'at' an organization versus those applied 'from' within an organization.
To understand expert opinions on the composition and application of environmental change methods.

Main Methods:

Online survey administered to 20 health promotion experts.
Part 1: Assessed the extent to which environmental methods involve specific individual methods ('Bundling').
Part 2: Evaluated differences in applying methods directed 'at' versus 'from' an organization.

Main Results:

Individual methods are frequently bundled into higher ecological level methods.
Environmental interventions often emphasize motivational aspects of behavior change.
Health promoters use motivation/facilitation; managers use self-efficacy/skills-focused methods.

Conclusions:

Taxonomies for environmental change should incorporate bundled individual methods and 'at' vs. 'from' approaches.
Further research is needed to rate more methods and explore qualitative data for surprising outcomes.
Taxonomies should detail theoretical parameters influencing method effectiveness, including avoidance of coercion.