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Fully understanding how to convert household attitudes and opinions into efficient participatory behaviour, within what still remains a voluntary activity, is essential if targets are to be met at an 'affordable' economic and environmental cost.
Portes (1998 18) explains that "civicness" is commonly "equated with the level of associational involvement and participatory behaviour in a community and is measured by indicators such as newspaper reading, membership of voluntary associations, and expressions of trust in political authorities".
Moreover, research suggests participatory behaviour change interventions do not work quickly, nor do they work for all.
However, the continued limited impacts of behavioural HIV-prevention and IPV-prevention interventions, will continue without developing models of training and support that enable participatory behaviour change interventions to be delivered at scale, while retaining their underlying theory of change.
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Participatory approaches to behaviour change dominate HIV- and intimate partner violence prevention interventions.
Yet, the assumption that interventions relying on participatory models of behaviour change will simply 'work' with enough training and support for facilitators, may be inappropriate.
Participatory approaches to behaviour change are premised on the assumption that through the creation of safe social spaces and supporting discussion amongst participants group processes leading to reflection, critical thinking and change [ 9, 11, 13].
Participatory approaches to behaviour change assume participants are 'experts' in their own lives and have all the knowledge and information they require, based on their lived experiences [ 8, 15].
In reality, these will be ongoing tensions that programme implementers and researchers need to be aware of as they use participatory methodologies to effect behaviour change and not ones that can be removed simply by training and support; however, continued training and support will lead to better outcomes.
In order to give physicians the opportunity to involve patients according to their wishes in the medical treatment process, attempts have repeatedly been made to predict patients' behaviour regarding participatory preferences by using sociodemographic and/or psychosocial factors [ 10, 23, 26, 44].
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