UCL Grand Challenge of Human Wellbeing

Programme

Monday 29 July 2012

Behaviour change and complex interventions: design and evaluation

Venue: Archaeology G6 Lecture Theatre, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PY

9.30am
Registration /tea and coffee

9.50am
Welcome by Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology, UCL

10am-1pm - break at 11.30am for 10 mins
Behaviourial Interventions: an introductions to the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) for engineering better behavioural interventions, led by Linda Collins, Pennsylvania State UniversityBehavioral interventions, for example, interventions aimed at helping people to quit using tobacco or other drugs, increase their physical activity, lose weight, or overcome depression, play an important role in public health. In this half-day workshop Linda Collins will describe an alternative framework for building and evaluating behavioral interventions.
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2pm-5pm - break at 3.15pm for 10 mins
Missing data: analysis and design, led by John W. Graham, Pennsylvania State UniversityJohn Graham will present a sketch of missing data theory, including descriptions of normal-model multiple imputation (MI) and maximum likelihood methods. He will discuss attrition and nonignorable missingness, emphasizing the need for longitudinal diagnostics and for reducing the uncertainty about the missing data mechanism under attrition.
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5pm-5.30pm
Members of UCL's Behaviour Change community respond to the two workshops:
Robert West, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of Tobacco Studies, Health Behaviour Research Centre, UCL
Henry Potts, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Health Informatics & Multiprofessional Education (CHIME), UCL
Chair: Professor Susan Michie

5.30-6pm
Concluding questions and answers

6pm -7pm
Drinks reception

Register for the workshop