ArticleThe journal of behavioral health services & research2019
Agency-Based Empowerment Interventions: Efforts to Enhance Decision-Making and Action in Health and Development.
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- Effect of a health education program on type 2 diabetes prevention among high school teachers in Erbil, Iraq.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The association between women's decision-making roles in sanitation and mental well-being in urban Bangladesh.Health & place · 2025Article
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- Effectiveness of nutrition counseling for pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries to improve maternal and infant behavioral, nutritional, and health outcomes: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2023Review
- Superstitious beliefs, locus of control, and feeling at risk in the face of Covid-19.Personality and individual differences · 2022Article
- Cultural efficacy as a novel component of understanding linkages between culture and mental health in Indigenous communities.American journal of community psychology · 2022Article
- PROTOCOL: Effectiveness of nutrition counselling for pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries to improve maternal, infant and child behavioural, nutritional and health outcomes: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2021Article
- PROTOCOL: The effects of empowerment-based nutrition interventions on the nutritional status of women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries.Campbell systematic reviews · 2021Article
- Young people's preferences for HIV self-testing services in Nigeria: a qualitative analysis.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Classroom, club or collective? Three types of community-based group intervention and why they matter for health.BMJ global health · 2020Review
- PROTOCOL: The effects of empowerment-based nutrition interventions on the nutritional status of adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries.Campbell systematic reviews · 2019Article
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Abstract
This paper outlines the critical role of personal agency in influencing health and development outcomes and presents a framework for implementing non-therapeutic cognitive-behavioral interventions that foster agency, especially for women, in resource-poor settings. The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has placed "empowerment" at the center of global targets, particularly to improve individuals' health and development. Despite extensive research on individual and community empowerment, there is limited focus on the role of psychological and behavioral approaches directly fostering individual and collective agency in health programs. Fundamental to this process is the understanding that decision-making is an interaction between mental processes and one's current context. Approaches that allow individuals to understand how their beliefs, values, emotions, and thoughts impact their behaviors and can be modulated to increase their personal agency are needed. This model is illustrated through a pilot behavioral intervention with women engaged in sex work in Pune, India, demonstrating substantive benefits.
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