Study summary
Effective techniques in healthy eating and physical activity interventions: A meta-regression
Susan Michie et al. ·
Health Psychology
Meta-regression on behaviour-change techniques (BCTs) in diet and physical-activity interventions—self-monitoring as a central effective component.
Key points
Self-monitoring of behaviour explains the largest share of heterogeneity between studies
Self-monitoring combined with other control-theory techniques more effective than other interventions (0.42 vs 0.26)
122 effect sizes (N = 44,747); overall effect 0.31
Main takeaways
- Self-monitoring of behaviour explains the largest share of heterogeneity between studies
- Self-monitoring combined with other control-theory techniques more effective than other interventions (0.42 vs 0.26)
- 122 effect sizes (N = 44,747); overall effect 0.31
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