Are we making progress? Testing whether interventions to promote key health behaviors improved over the past 30 years

Paschal Sheeran, Yifei Pei and Alexander J. Rothman

Social Science & Medicine, 2025, vol. 383, issue C

Abstract: Conceptual and methodological developments could contribute to increasing efficacy of health behavior change interventions over time. We undertook a meta-synthesis to determine whether and to what extent intervention effects have improved during the past 30+ years.

Keywords: Efficacy; Effectiveness; Randomized controlled trials; Progress; Benchmarking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118484

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