Behavior Change Techniques in Continuing Professional Development

Continuing professional development (CPD) is a widely used and evolving set of complex interventions that seeks to update and improve the knowledge, skills, and performance of health care professionals to ultimately improve patient care and outcomes. While synthesized evidence shows CPD in general t...

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Published in:The Journal of continuing education in the health professions Vol. 40; no. 4; p. 268
Main Authors: Konnyu, Kristin J, McCleary, Nicola, Presseau, Justin, Ivers, Noah M, Grimshaw, Jeremy M
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States 01.10.2020
Subjects:
Behavior Therapy - methods
Behavior Therapy - trends
Education, Continuing - methods
Education, Continuing - trends
Humans
Quality Improvement
Staff Development - methods
Staff Development - trends
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ISSN:1554-558X, 1554-558X
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Summary:Continuing professional development (CPD) is a widely used and evolving set of complex interventions that seeks to update and improve the knowledge, skills, and performance of health care professionals to ultimately improve patient care and outcomes. While synthesized evidence shows CPD in general to be effective, effects vary, in part due to variation in CPD interventions and limited understanding of CPD mechanisms of action. We introduce two behavioral science tools-the Behavior Change Technique Taxonomy version 1 and the Theoretical Domains Framework-that can be used to characterize the content of CPD interventions and the determinants of behaviour potentially targeted by the interventions, respectively. We provide a worked example of the use of these tools in coding the educational content of 43 diabetes quality improvement trials containing clinician education as part of their multicomponent intervention. Fourteen (of a possible 93; 15%) behavior change techniques were identified in the clinician education content of the quality improvement trials, suggesting a focus of addressing the behavioral determinants beliefs about consequences, knowledge, skills, and social influences, of diabetes care providers' behavior. We believe that the Behavior Change Technique Taxonomy version 1 and Theoretical Domains Framework offer a novel lens to analyze the CPD content of existing evidence and inform the design and evaluation of future CPD interventions.
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ISSN:1554-558X
1554-558X
DOI:10.1097/CEH.0000000000000319