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Characterization of Preoperative, Postsurgical, Acute and Chronic Pain in High Risk Breast Cancer Patients (2020)
Journal Article
Forget, P., Sitter, T., Hollick, R., Dixon, D., van Maanen, A., Dekleermaker, A., Duhoux, F., De Kock, M., Berliere, M., & on behalf of the KBCt Group. (2020). Characterization of Preoperative, Postsurgical, Acute and Chronic Pain in High Risk Breast Cancer Patients. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 9(12), Article 3831. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9123831

Background: Pain after breast cancer surgery remains largely unexplained and inconsistently quantified. This study aims to describe the perioperative pain patterns in patients with breast cancer, up to two years after surgery. Methods: This is a pre-... Read More about Characterization of Preoperative, Postsurgical, Acute and Chronic Pain in High Risk Breast Cancer Patients.

MAP: A mnemonic for mapping BCTs to three routes to behaviour change (2020)
Journal Article
Dixon, D., & Johnston, M. (2020). MAP: A mnemonic for mapping BCTs to three routes to behaviour change. British Journal of Health Psychology, 25(4), 1086-1101. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12458

Objective Over 90 behaviour change techniques (BCTs) have been specified but there is limited guidance to assist non-specialist practitioners in the choice of which BCTs to select for use with clients. This paper describes the development of MAP, a... Read More about MAP: A mnemonic for mapping BCTs to three routes to behaviour change.

What Competences Are Required to Deliver Person-Person Behaviour Change Interventions: Development of a Health Behaviour Change Competency Framework (2020)
Journal Article
Dixon, D., & Johnston, M. (2021). What Competences Are Required to Deliver Person-Person Behaviour Change Interventions: Development of a Health Behaviour Change Competency Framework. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 28(3), 308-317. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-020-09920-6

Background The competence of the person delivering person-to-person behaviour change interventions may influence the effectiveness of the intervention. However, we lack a framework for describing the range of competences involved. The objective of t... Read More about What Competences Are Required to Deliver Person-Person Behaviour Change Interventions: Development of a Health Behaviour Change Competency Framework.