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A selection of recent CBC webinars and resources, organised by theme.
Health and wellbeing
- Public health and social measures during health emergencies (report)
Prof Susan Michie (CBC Director) participated in the World Health Organization's 2nd global technical consultation, which aimed to accelerate the use of public health and social measures for epidemic and pandemic preparedness. Read the report from this meeting on the WHO website.
- Economics of Pandemic Preparedness - Trade-offs in peacetime and pandemics (report)
Prof Susan Michie participated in an interdisciplinary workshop organized by Imperial College London’s Jameel Institute, Institute of Infection and the Centre for Health Economics & Policy Innovation. Read the report from this meeting on the Imperial College website.
- Antimicrobial resistance and behaviour change (webinar)
Dr Fabiana Lorencatto (CBC Co-Director) recorded a lecture, which you can watch on YouTube, as part of the Digital Health Hub for AMR.
- Improving people’s health: applying behavioural and social sciences (report)
The Behavioural and Social Science Strategy - Improving People's Health was published by the Campaign for the Social Sciences to enable the broad public health system to use behavioural and social sciences. It was developed by a collaboration of academics, public health professionals and representatives from funders and learned bodies, chaired by Prof Susan Michie.
Tools for research
- Involving young people in research (paper)
This paper (lead author: Rachel Perowne, PhD student, CBC) provides a practical resource for researchers considering involving young people in the research process, and suggests what data should be collected to improve reporting on the diversity of the young people involved.
- CONSORT Guidelines: recommendations for reporting randomized controlled trials
Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT), encompasses various initiatives developed by the CONSORT Group to alleviate the problems arising from inadequate reporting of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). The main product of CONSORT is the CONSORT Statement, which is an evidence-based, minimum set of recommendations for reporting RCTs. It offers a standard way for authors to prepare reports of trial findings, facilitating their complete and transparent reporting, and aiding their critical appraisal and interpretation.
References
Montgomery P, Grant S, Mayo-Wilson E, Macdonald G, Michie S, Hopewell S, Moher D.
(2018) Reporting randomised trials of social and psychological interventions: the CONSORT-SPI 2018 Extension, Trials, 19(407):1-14, DOI:1186/s13063-018-2733-1.Grant S, Mayo-Wilson E, Montgomery P, Macdonald G, Michie S, Hopewell S, Moher D.
(2018) CONSORT-SPI 2018 Explanation and Elaboration: guidance for reporting social and psychological intervention trials, Trials, 19(406):1-18, DOI: 10.1186/s13063-018-2735-z.- Better reporting of interventions: Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide
Without a complete published description of interventions, clinicians and patients cannot reliably implement interventions that are shown to be useful, and other researchers cannot replicate or build on research findings. The quality of description of interventions in publications, however, is remarkably poor. To improve the completeness of reporting, and ultimately the replicability, of interventions, an international group of experts and stakeholders developed the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide.
Reference
Hoffmann TC, Glasziou PP, Boutron I, Milne R, Perera R, Moher D, Altman DG, Barbour V, Macdonald H, Johnston M, Lamb SE, Dixon-Woods M, McCulloch P, Wyatt JC, Chan A-W, Michie S
(2014) Better reporting of interventions: the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide, British Medical Journal, 348:g1687, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g1687.
Ontologies
Ontologies can be used to synthesise evidence, link data sets and predict intervention outcomes in novel scenarios. The following tools and resources have been developed to support with this.
- What are ontologies and how are they useful in behavioural science? (recording)
Prof Susan Michie gave a plenary talk at the IBTN Conference in Montreal, which took place in May 2024. The presentation was part of the session on 'Use Of Ontologies In Behavioural Intervention Development And Testing'.
- Tools and online resources on ontologies and the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology (website)
The HBCP / Apricot website allows users to learn more about the CBC's work in ontologies, access resources and open-source tools, get training, watch webinars, and much more.
The Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology (BCIO) aims to organise information about behaviour change interventions, their contexts and evaluations. The BCIO website provides information about the BCIO, explains how to use and contribute to the BCIO, and allows users to search and visualise the BCIO using online, open-access tools. There is also an online training resource on the website.
- The Paper Authoring Tool: writing reports so that they are computer-readable (online tool)
The Paper Authoring Tool is an online tool for writing reports of randomised trials that ensures all the relevant information is included and specified in a way that allows for comparison across studies. It provides a facility to specify information using ontologies such as the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology so that it is computer-readable.
- The HBCP Study Findings and Research Browser tools for evidence identification and extraction (online tools)
The HBCP Study Findings and Research Browser tools aim to 1) To find relevant studies in a given area and, 2) where study reports have had detailed information extracted using the BCIO, to search for studies using that information.
- The Outcome Prediction Tool: for behavioural prediction
The Outcome Prediction tool uses semantically-enhanced Machine Learning to predict smoking cessation rates in scenarios specified by users.
Artificial intelligence
- AI and the future of behavioural science (recording)
Prof Susan Michie (CBC Director) and Prof Robert West (CBC Associate) took part in this panel event at LSE in October 2024. Watch the recording on YouTube.
- Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Decisions (toolkit)
This toolkit contains a set of resources to support people to critically question the use of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system. The resources can be used to help people decide how much they want public health decision makers to trust an AI system.
Advancing behavioural science
- Who is doing behavioural research in the UK and where? (map)
Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK), a research consortium funded by the ESRC and made up of university and government partners including the CBC, have created an interactive map of organisations that engage in behavioural research.