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Erschienen in: Journal of Behavioral Medicine 1/2017

01.08.2016

Behavior change interventions: the potential of ontologies for advancing science and practice

verfasst von: Kai R. Larsen, Susan Michie, Eric B. Hekler, Bryan Gibson, Donna Spruijt-Metz, David Ahern, Heather Cole-Lewis, Rebecca J. Bartlett Ellis, Bradford Hesse, Richard P. Moser, Jean Yi

Erschienen in: Journal of Behavioral Medicine | Ausgabe 1/2017

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Abstract

A central goal of behavioral medicine is the creation of evidence-based interventions for promoting behavior change. Scientific knowledge about behavior change could be more effectively accumulated using “ontologies.” In information science, an ontology is a systematic method for articulating a “controlled vocabulary” of agreed-upon terms and their inter-relationships. It involves three core elements: (1) a controlled vocabulary specifying and defining existing classes; (2) specification of the inter-relationships between classes; and (3) codification in a computer-readable format to enable knowledge generation, organization, reuse, integration, and analysis. This paper introduces ontologies, provides a review of current efforts to create ontologies related to behavior change interventions and suggests future work. This paper was written by behavioral medicine and information science experts and was developed in partnership between the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s Technology Special Interest Group (SIG) and the Theories and Techniques of Behavior Change Interventions SIG. In recent years significant progress has been made in the foundational work needed to develop ontologies of behavior change. Ontologies of behavior change could facilitate a transformation of behavioral science from a field in which data from different experiments are siloed into one in which data across experiments could be compared and/or integrated. This could facilitate new approaches to hypothesis generation and knowledge discovery in behavioral science.
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Metadaten
Titel
Behavior change interventions: the potential of ontologies for advancing science and practice
verfasst von
Kai R. Larsen
Susan Michie
Eric B. Hekler
Bryan Gibson
Donna Spruijt-Metz
David Ahern
Heather Cole-Lewis
Rebecca J. Bartlett Ellis
Bradford Hesse
Richard P. Moser
Jean Yi
Publikationsdatum
01.08.2016
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Journal of Behavioral Medicine / Ausgabe 1/2017
Print ISSN: 0160-7715
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-3521
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-016-9768-0

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