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Does planning how to cope with anticipated barriers facilitate health-related behaviour change? A systematic review
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Health-related interventions often prompt participants to plan how to cope with anticipated barriers to behaviour change, a technique known as coping planning. The purpose of this study was to review the evidence of the efficacy of prompting individuals to form coping plans as a technique for promoting health-related behaviour change. Electronic databases (MEDLINE, Embase and PsycInfo) and unpublished literature were searched for randomised controlled trials that allocated participants to the study conditions with and without prompts to form coping plans. Evidence was assessed for quality and narratively synthesised. Full text papers of 65 articles were assessed for eligibility and 11 papers were included in the review. Coping planning interventions appear to be efficacious when participants are supported in the process of forming coping plans. Combining action plans with coping plans seems to be more efficacious than using action plans only. The overall efficacy of coping planning is variable. Future interventions should consider potential moderators of the efficacy of such plans.
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“For primary hypothesis H1, to detect increases in uptake from 50% to 65% (a conservative baseline based on previous research [53]), with conservative increase based on previous work by Ebert et al. [16] with 90% power requires a sample of 231 per condition (with α = .05).”
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“To detect increases in adherence (H2), assuming a small effect of f = 0.19 (the estimated median effect from previous research [53]) between active conditions requires a sample of 111 per condition.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kwasnicka, D., Presseau, J., White, M., & Sniehotta, F. F.
- Affiliations
- Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University
- United Kingdom Clinical Research Collaboration (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Sniehotta, Falko F.
- Venue
- Health Psychology Review
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-02-19
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 129-145
- ISSN
- 1743-7199 (ISSN-L)
- 1743-7202
- OpenAlex
- W1999436456
- Cited by
- 237
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 76 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 3
- FWCI
- 2.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Health Psychology Review (publishedVersion)
- eSpace (Curtin University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Medical Research Council (MR/K02325X/1)
- Economic and Social Research Council (ES/G007470/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
- Keywords
- coping planning, health behavior change, action plan, behaviour change interventions, intervention efficacy
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