Everything should be as simple as possible, but this will still be complex: a reply to various commentaries on IPEBA.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Which Combinations of Techniques and Modes of Delivery in Internet-Based Interventions Effectively Change Health Behavior? A Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2016
   Pooled it
2. Teaching adults how to prevent COVID-19 infection by health workers: The application of intervention mapping approach.Journal of education and health promotion · 2021
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3. To what extent can behaviour change techniques be identified within an adaptable implementation package for primary care? A prospective directed content analysis.Implementation science : IS · 2018
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4. Cancer-Related Fatigue in Post-Treatment Cancer Survivors: Theory-Based Development of a Web-Based Intervention.JMIR cancer · 2017
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5. A taxonomy of behaviour change methods: an Intervention Mapping approach.Health psychology review · 2016
   Review
6. An individualized mobile health intervention to promote physical activity in adults with obstructive sleep apnea: An intervention mapping approach.Digital health
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler: towards a protocol for accumulating evidence regarding the active content of health behaviour change interventions.2015
• Comment on
  Dread returns to Mega-Silly One.2015
• Comment on
  Towards healthy theorising about health behaviours in the maze of messy reality: a reaction to Peters, de Bruin, and Crutzen.2015
• Comment on
  Advancing cumulative evidence on behaviour change techniques and interventions: a comment on Peters, de Bruin, and Crutzen.2015
• Comment on
  Changing behaviour, slow and fast: commentary on Peters, de Bruin and Crutzen.2015
• Comment on
  We cannot keep firing blanks - yet another appeal for improved RCT reporting: commentary on Peters, de Bruin and Crutzen.2015

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.