ABSTRACT

Health psychology is at the forefront of developing and disseminating evidence, theories, and methods that have improved the understanding of health behaviour change. However, current dissemination approaches may be insufficient for promoting broader application and impact of this evidence to benefit the health of patients and the public. Nevertheless, behaviour change theory/methods typically directed towards health behaviours are now used in implementation science to understand and support behaviour change in individuals at different health system levels whose own behaviour impacts delivering evidence-based health behaviour change interventions. Despite contributing to implementation science, health psychology is perhaps doing less to draw from it. A redoubled focus on implementation science in health psychology could provide novel prospects for enhancing the impact of health behaviour change evidence. We report a Health Psychology Review-specific review-of-reviews of trials of health behaviour change interventions published from inception to April 2020. We identified 34 reviews and assessed whether implementation readiness of behaviour change interventions was discussed. We then narratively review how implementation science has integrated theory/methods from health psychology and related discipline. Finally, we demonstrate how greater synergy between implementation science and health psychology could promote greater follow-through on advances made in the science of health behaviour change.

摘要

健康心理学处于发展和传播证据、理论和方法的最前沿，这些证据、理论和方法提高了对健康行为改变的理解。然而，目前的传播方法可能不足以促进该证据的更广泛应用和影响，从而造福患者和公众的健康。然而，通常针对健康行为的行为改变理论/方法现在被用于实施科学，以了解和支持不同卫生系统级别的个人的行为改变，这些个人的行为会影响提供基于证据的健康行为改变干预措施。尽管为实施科学做出了贡献，但健康心理学可能做得更少它。加倍关注健康心理学中的实施科学可以为增强健康行为改变证据的影响提供新的前景。我们报告了从开始到 2020 年 4 月发布的健康行为改变干预试验的特定健康心理学评论评论。我们确定了 34 篇评论，并评估了是否讨论了行为改变干预措施的实施准备情况。然后，我们叙述性地回顾实施科学如何整合健康心理学和相关学科的理论/方法。最后，我们展示了实施科学与健康心理学之间更大的协同作用如何促进对健康行为改变科学取得的进展进行更大的跟进。