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. 2023 May 10;17(5):e0011315. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011315

Table 3. Types of BC techniques used by selected projects according to intervention model.

Projects Types of Behaviour Change Strategies
Knowledge Consequences Comparison of outcomes Associations Goals and Planning Feedback and monitoring Self-belief Context Reward and incentives Scheduled consequences
- Info. on transmission cycle and risk practices.
- Instructions to adopt safe practices.
- Info. about health consequences.
- Info. about social consequences
- Info. about severity of consequences.
- Info. about benefits.
- Credible actors explain pros and cons of behaviours.
- Explicit comparison of prod and cons.
- Environmental reminders / stimuli for safe behaviour.
- Environmental reminders of benefits.
- Analysis of problems and outline of correcting measures.
- Planning how to implement measures.
- Agreement on goals.
- Public commitment to measures or goals.
- Monitoring of compliance.
- Feedback to actors on performance.
- Advise or statements stressing local capacity to implement recommendations. - Changes to the physical environment.
- Changes to the social environment.
- Rewards or promises of rewards if progress towards compliance (material or immaterial). - Arranged system of sanctions based on behavioural outcome.
HEALTH EDUCATION INTERVENTIONS
Chaula & Tarimo, 2014 [45] X X
Cline & Hewlett., 1996 [40] X X X X X
Ejike et al. 2017 [47] X X X X
Ejike et al. 2021 [48] X X X X
Favre et al., 2021 [49] X X X X
Garba et al, 2001 [50] X X X
Guang-Han et al., 2005 [51] X X X X X X
Hong et al., 2011 [52] X X X a
Jia-Gang et al., 2005 [53] X X
Lansdown et al., 2002 [49] X X X X
Nagi et al. 2005 [56] X X X
N’Diaye et al., 2016 [55] X X X a
Oyeyemi et al., 2018 [57] X X X a
Stothard et al., 2016 [58] X X X X
Wang et al., 2013 [60] X X X X
Wolmarans & de Knock, 2009 [61] X X
Yuan et al., 2000 [62] X X
SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL INTERVENTIONS
Nsowah-Nuamah et al. 2001 [63] X X X X X a,b X
Hurlimann et al., 2018 [64] X X X X X X b
Madon et al., 2018 [66] X X X X X X a,b X
Mwanga et al., 2013 [67] X X X X X X b
Mwanga et al., 2015 [70] X X X X X X a,b
Person et al., 2021 [71]
Knopp et al., 2019 [72]
X X X X X X X a,b
Rassi et al., 2019 [74] X X X X X b
PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL INTERVENTIONS
El Kholy et al., 1989 [76] X a
Freeman et al., 2013 [77] X X a
Kosinski, et al., 2016 [78] X a
Noda et al., 1997 [79] X a
Wepne et al., 2019 [80] X a
INCENTIVES BASED INTERVENTIONS
Fink & Rockers, 2017 [81] X
Muhumuza et al., 2014 [82] X

a. Physical environment

b. Social environment