Preferred Name

individual human behaviour change
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A process that results in a difference in enactment of some individual human behaviour or individual human behaviour pattern from what would have been the case otherwise. The term 'change' in behaviour change refers to change from what would have happened in the absence of a causal process. Thus. a process that results in a behaviour (e.g. going to the gym) being maintained when otherwise it would have lapsed is included in the class, as is not taking up smoking as a result of some intervention. behaviour change can refer to individual behaviours (e.g. attending a breast cancer screening appointment) or behaviour patterns (e.g. regular consumption of alcoholic beverages).

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http://humanbehaviourchange.org/ontology/BCIO_050209

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The term 'change' in behaviour change refers to change from what would have happened in the absence of a causal process. Thus. a process that results in a behaviour (e.g. going to the gym) being maintained when otherwise it would have lapsed is included in the class, as is not taking up smoking as a result of some intervention. behaviour change can refer to individual behaviours (e.g. attending a breast cancer screening appointment) or behaviour patterns (e.g. regular consumption of alcoholic beverages).

alternative term

behaviour change

example of usage

Non-enactment of a behaviour, cessation of a behaviour pattern, enactment of a behaviour, initiation of a behaviour pattern and change in attributes of a behaviour or behaviour pattern.

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individual human behaviour change

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individual human behaviour change

textual definition

A process that results in a difference in enactment of some individual human behaviour or individual human behaviour pattern from what would have been the case otherwise.

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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000015

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