Source Paper
Behaviour change techniques: the development and evaluation of a taxonomic method for reporting and describing behaviour change interventions (a suite of five studies involving consensus methods, randomised controlled trials and analysis of qualitative data)
Susan Michie, Caroline E Wood, Marie Johnston, Charles Abraham, Jill J Francis et al.
Health Technology Assessment • 2015
Hierarchical Structure Development - Open Sort Procedures
Objective: To develop the hierarchical structure and groupings of behaviour change techniques using inductive 'bottom-up' and theory-driven 'top-down' open-sort procedures
Protocol Steps
Inductive Bottom-Up Open-Sort Procedure
Conduct inductive 'bottom-up' open-sort procedure to develop hierarchical structure and groupings of behaviour change techniques
Note: This procedure involved sorting and grouping behaviour change techniques from the ground up without predetermined theoretical framework
View evidence from paper
“hierarchical structure of the list was developed using inductive 'bottom-up' and theory-driven 'top-down' open-sort procedures (n = 36)”
Theory-Driven Top-Down Open-Sort Procedure
Conduct theory-driven 'top-down' open-sort procedure to develop hierarchical structure and groupings of behaviour change techniques
Note: This procedure involved sorting and grouping behaviour change techniques using predetermined theoretical frameworks
View evidence from paper
“hierarchical structure of the list was developed using inductive 'bottom-up' and theory-driven 'top-down' open-sort procedures (n = 36)”
Compare Groupings from Both Procedures
Compare the groupings produced by the bottom-up open-sort procedure with those produced by the theory-driven top-down procedure to identify overlap and differences
Note: Results showed overlap between groupings from both procedures
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“BCTs clustered into 16 groupings using a 'bottom-up' open-sort procedure; there was overlap between these and groupings produced by a theory-driven, 'top-down' procedure”