Making health habitual: The psychology of 'habit-formation' and general practice

摘要

Patients trust health professionals as a source of advice on 'lifestyle' (that is, behaviour] change, and brief opportunistic advice can be effective.2 However, many health professionals shy away from giving advice on modifying behaviour because they find traditional behaviour change strategies time-consuming to explain and difficult for the patient to implement.2 Furthermore, even when patients successfully initiate the recommended changes, the gains are often transient3 because few of the traditional behaviour change strategies have built-in mechanisms for maintenance.