Using the Behaviour Change Wheel in infection prevention and control practice

J Infect Prev. 2016 Mar;17(2):74-78. doi: 10.1177/1757177415615952. Epub 2015 Nov 25.

Abstract

The Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London (UCL) is a new venture that has grown out of the work that we have been doing in the Health Psychology Research Group at UCL and seeks to harness the different pockets of behaviour change work in different disciplines across UCL. A lot of our work in health focuses on the adoption of evidence-based guidelines in practice; not just designing and evaluating interventions, but also developing usable tools for people who are tasked with changing behaviours. These tools aim to enable those who do not necessarily have a background in behavioural science to understand the behaviours they are trying to change and design appropriate interventions.

Keywords: behaviour; healthcare-associated infections; implementation science; research.