Changing behaviour by focusing on changing places (environments) rather than individuals offers a non-stigmatising, do-able approach to prevention.
Individual approaches focused on changing individual behaviors, such as those of SONKE Gender Justice (10) and the Stepping Stones Intervention (11), might be effectively combined with community-oriented approaches aimed at changing not only behaviors but also the norms underlying them.
How might donors and recipient organizations more fully engage as equal partners while exercising mutual respect in prioritizing needs, developing plans, implementing interventions, and modifying approaches based on changing environments?
However, behaviour therapy was used in 12 trials, including one or more of the following: relaxation exercises, guided imagery, visualisation or cognitive approaches focusing on changing specific thoughts or beliefs and learning specific coping skills.
Considering the paucity of related knowledge translation studies pertaining to the Indian context, we identified the need to design an effective model to transfer available scientific knowledge through a practical and community-based approach, focusing on changing unhealthy diet.
In some cases, PSI has introduced new products, for example, malaria rapid diagnostic tests, but most often the approach focuses on changing provider behaviors and practices to improve the quality of existing services.
This approach focuses on changing patient beliefs, confronting their fears, educating them about pain mechanisms, enhancing mindfulness of the control of their body during pain provocative functional tasks, training them to reduce excessive trunk muscle activity and change behaviours related to pain provocative movements and postures.
Most synthetic biology approaches have focused on changing gene regulatory DNA sequences (mainly promoters) for transcription control.
SmartAPPetite was designed to address the concern that "health promotion approaches to changing behaviour have focused on giving information and largely ignored the role of motivational, social, and environmental factors" (page 31) [ 55] which predispose people to making such suboptimal choices.
A personal-level approach focuses directly on changing actual and potential behavior in a working process with respective individuals, while an environmental-level approach aims to modify the environment of individuals such that adaptive capacity can develop and resilience is possible in adverse situations.
