Abstract
There is a growing emphasis on behavior change in intervention development programmes aimed at improving public health and healthcare professionals' practice. A number of frameworks and methodological tools have been established to assist researchers in developing interventions seeking to change healthcare professionals' behaviors. The key features of behavior change intervention design involve specifying the target group (i.e. healthcare professional or patient cohort), the target behavior and identifying mediators (i.e. barriers and facilitators) of behavior change. Once the target behavior is clearly specified and understood, specific behavior change techniques can then be used as the basis of the intervention to target identified mediators of behavior change. This commentary outlines the challenges for pharmacy practice-based researchers in targeting dispensing as a behavior when developing behavior change interventions aimed at pharmacists and proposes a definition of dispensing to consider in future research.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 149-153 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 09 Apr 2015 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2016 |