Development of a behaviour change communication tool for medical students: the 'Tent Pegs' booklet.



Chisholm, Anna, Hart, Jo ORCID: 0000-0001-9985-5137, Mann, Karen and Peters, Sarah
(2014) Development of a behaviour change communication tool for medical students: the 'Tent Pegs' booklet. Patient education and counseling, 94 (1). pp. 50-60.

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Abstract

<h4>Objective</h4>To describe the development and validation of a behaviour change communication tool for medical students.<h4>Methods</h4>Behaviour change techniques (BCTs) were identified within the literature and used to inform a communication tool to support medical students in discussing health-related behaviour change with patients. BCTs were organized into an accessible format for medical students (the 'Tent Pegs' booklet) and validated using discriminant content validity methods with 11 expert judges.<h4>Results</h4>One-sample t-tests showed that judges reliably mapped BCTs onto six of the seven Tent Pegs domains (confidence rating means ranged from 4.0 to 5.1 out of 10, all p≤0.002). Only BCTs within the 'empowering people to change' domain were not significantly different from the value zero (mean confidence rating=1.2, p>0.05); these BCTs were most frequently allocated to the 'addressing thoughts and emotions' domain instead.<h4>Conclusion</h4>BCTs within the Tent Pegs booklet are reliably allocated to corresponding behaviour change domains with the exception of those within the 'empowering people to change' domain.<h4>Practice implications</h4>The existing evidence-base on BCTs can be used to directly inform development of a communication tool to support medical students facilitate health behaviour change with patients.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Humans, Reproducibility of Results, Communication, Health Behavior, Physician-Patient Relations, Behavior Therapy, Education, Medical, Undergraduate, Students, Medical, Pamphlets
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 05 Aug 2016 09:52
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 07:32
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2013.09.007
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3002783