Lifestyle changes and the adoption of healthy behaviours are well established recommendations for the management of hypertension, a risk factor for cardiovascular and kidney disease. Mobile health interventions offer unique advantages and novel approaches to helping individuals make and maintain such behaviour changes; however, current interventions often lack theoretical and scientific groundi...

The purpose of this position paper is to introduce the prototype of a design product knowledge representing system which is theoretically guided by our recent work on extending Function-Behaviour-Structure ontology. The basic constructions and data-storing strategies are presented in the paper along with its major interface, thus to give an outline of the working pattern of this system.

The Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) is a process of implementing communication strategies for the welfare of individual or communities to encourage them to adopt positive behaviours suitable to the local problem and the settings. Successful implementation of BCC essentially needs extensive research and meticulous planning based on the level of knowledge and attitude of the target populatio...

Interventions to change health-related behaviours typically have modest effects and may be more effective if grounded in appropriate theory. Most theories applied to public health interventions tend to emphasise individual capabilities and motivation, with limited reference to context and social factors. Intervention effectiveness may be increased by drawing on a wider range of theories incorpo...

BACKGROUND Failure to successfully implement and sustain change over the long term continues to be a major problem in health and social care. Translating evidence into routine clinical practice is notoriously complex, and it is recognised that to implement new evidence-based interventions and sustain them over time, professional behaviour needs to change accordingly. A number of theories and fr...

The study evaluated the efficacy of the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA), along with self-efficacy to predict dietary behaviour in a group of Iranian women with type 2 diabetes. A sample of 352 diabetic women referred to Khoy Diabetes Clinic, Iran, were selected and given a self-administered survey to assess eating behaviour, using the extended TRA constructs. Bivariate correlations and Enter re...

In a dynamic world organisations have to change often. To enable organisations to change, certain structures and capabilities are needed. As all processes, a change process has to be organised itself. In this paper it is shown how within a formal organisation modelling approach also organisation change processes can be modelled. A generic organisation model (covering both organisation structure...

Although many attempts to change health behaviour fail, some individuals do show successful behaviour change. This study assessed the role of behavioural intentions, motivations and attitudes to the target in explaining successful changes in diet with a particular focus on positive and negative intentions and positive and negative attitudes. Participants (n=282) completed a questionnaire descri...

Behaviour change is difficult to achieve and there are many models identifying the factors to affect such change but few have been applied in the security domain. This paper discusses the use of serious games to improve the security behaviour of end-users. A new framework, based upon literature findings, is proposed for future game design. The trust and privacy issues related to using serious g...