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Using behavioural science in public health settings during the COVID-19 pandemic: The experience of public health practitioners and behavioural scientists
INTRODUCTION: The emergence of COVID-19 and the importance of behaviour change to limit its spread created an urgent need to apply behavioural science to public health. Knowledge mobilisation, the processes whereby research leads to useful findings that are implemented to affect positive outcomes, i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8818379/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35149259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103527 |
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author | Byrne-Davis, L.M.T. Turner, R.R. Amatya, S. Ashton, C. Bull, E.R. Chater, A.M. Lewis, L.J.M. Shorter, G.W. Whittaker, E. Hart, J.K. |
author_facet | Byrne-Davis, L.M.T. Turner, R.R. Amatya, S. Ashton, C. Bull, E.R. Chater, A.M. Lewis, L.J.M. Shorter, G.W. Whittaker, E. Hart, J.K. |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The emergence of COVID-19 and the importance of behaviour change to limit its spread created an urgent need to apply behavioural science to public health. Knowledge mobilisation, the processes whereby research leads to useful findings that are implemented to affect positive outcomes, is a goal for researchers, policy makers and practitioners alike. This study aimed to explores the experience of using behavioural science in public health during COVID-19, to discover barriers and facilitators and whether the rapidly changing context of COVID-19 influenced knowledge mobilisation. METHODS: We conducted a semi-structured interview study, with ten behavioural scientists and seven public health professionals in England, Scotland, Wales, The Netherlands and Canada. We conducted an inductive thematic analysis. RESULTS: We report three key themes and 10 sub-themes: 1.Challenges and facilitators of translation of behavioural science into public health (Methods and frameworks supported translation, Lack of supportive infrastructure, Conviction and sourcing of evidence and Embracing behavioural science) 2. The unique context of translation (Rapid change in context, the multi-disciplinary team and the emotional toll). 3. Recommendations to support future behavioural science translation (Embedding experts into teams, Importance of a collaborative network and showcasing the role of behavioural science). DISCUSSION: Barriers and facilitators included factors related to relationships between people, such as networks and teams; the expertise of individual people; and those related to materials, such as the use of frameworks and an overwhelming amount of evidence and literature. CONCLUSION: People and frameworks were seen as important in facilitating behavioural science in practice. Future research could explore how different frameworks are used. We recommend a stepped competency framework for behavioural science in public health and more focus on nurturing networks to facilitate knowledge mobilisation in future emergencies. |
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spelling | pubmed-88183792022-02-07 Using behavioural science in public health settings during the COVID-19 pandemic: The experience of public health practitioners and behavioural scientists Byrne-Davis, L.M.T. Turner, R.R. Amatya, S. Ashton, C. Bull, E.R. Chater, A.M. Lewis, L.J.M. Shorter, G.W. Whittaker, E. Hart, J.K. Acta Psychol (Amst) Article INTRODUCTION: The emergence of COVID-19 and the importance of behaviour change to limit its spread created an urgent need to apply behavioural science to public health. Knowledge mobilisation, the processes whereby research leads to useful findings that are implemented to affect positive outcomes, is a goal for researchers, policy makers and practitioners alike. This study aimed to explores the experience of using behavioural science in public health during COVID-19, to discover barriers and facilitators and whether the rapidly changing context of COVID-19 influenced knowledge mobilisation. METHODS: We conducted a semi-structured interview study, with ten behavioural scientists and seven public health professionals in England, Scotland, Wales, The Netherlands and Canada. We conducted an inductive thematic analysis. RESULTS: We report three key themes and 10 sub-themes: 1.Challenges and facilitators of translation of behavioural science into public health (Methods and frameworks supported translation, Lack of supportive infrastructure, Conviction and sourcing of evidence and Embracing behavioural science) 2. The unique context of translation (Rapid change in context, the multi-disciplinary team and the emotional toll). 3. Recommendations to support future behavioural science translation (Embedding experts into teams, Importance of a collaborative network and showcasing the role of behavioural science). DISCUSSION: Barriers and facilitators included factors related to relationships between people, such as networks and teams; the expertise of individual people; and those related to materials, such as the use of frameworks and an overwhelming amount of evidence and literature. CONCLUSION: People and frameworks were seen as important in facilitating behavioural science in practice. Future research could explore how different frameworks are used. We recommend a stepped competency framework for behavioural science in public health and more focus on nurturing networks to facilitate knowledge mobilisation in future emergencies. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022-04 2022-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8818379/ /pubmed/35149259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103527 Text en © 2022 Published by Elsevier B.V. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Byrne-Davis, L.M.T. Turner, R.R. Amatya, S. Ashton, C. Bull, E.R. Chater, A.M. Lewis, L.J.M. Shorter, G.W. Whittaker, E. Hart, J.K. Using behavioural science in public health settings during the COVID-19 pandemic: The experience of public health practitioners and behavioural scientists |
title | Using behavioural science in public health settings during the COVID-19 pandemic: The experience of public health practitioners and behavioural scientists |
title_full | Using behavioural science in public health settings during the COVID-19 pandemic: The experience of public health practitioners and behavioural scientists |
title_fullStr | Using behavioural science in public health settings during the COVID-19 pandemic: The experience of public health practitioners and behavioural scientists |
title_full_unstemmed | Using behavioural science in public health settings during the COVID-19 pandemic: The experience of public health practitioners and behavioural scientists |
title_short | Using behavioural science in public health settings during the COVID-19 pandemic: The experience of public health practitioners and behavioural scientists |
title_sort | using behavioural science in public health settings during the covid-19 pandemic: the experience of public health practitioners and behavioural scientists |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8818379/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35149259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103527 |
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