Making health habitual: the psychology of ‘habit-formation’ and general practice
University College London · King's College London · +1 more institution
Abstract
The Secretary of State recently proposed that the NHS: ‘... take every opportunity to prevent poor health and promote healthy living by making the most of healthcare professionals’ contact with individual patients.’ 1 Patients trust health professionals as a source of advice on ‘lifestyle’ (that is, behaviour) change, and brief opportunistic advice can be effective.2 However, many health professionals shy away from giving advice on modifying behaviour because they find traditional behaviour change strategies time-consuming to explain and difficult for the patient to implement.2 Furthermore, even when patients successfully initiate the recommended changes, the gains are often transient3 because few of the…
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3Topics & keywords
- Behaviour change
- Advice (programming)
- Health care
- Health professionals
- Behavior change
- Medicine
- Psychology
- Habit
- No poverty