To cite {behaviorchange} in publications use one or more of these (whichever is or are more appropriate):
Peters G, Crutzen R, Gruijters S (2025). The behaviorchange Package: Tools for Behavior Change Researchers and Professionals. https://behaviorchange.opens.science.
Metz G, Peters GY, Crutzen R (2022). “Acyclic behavior change diagrams: a tool to report and analyze interventions.” Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 10(1), 1216–1228. ISSN 2164-2850, doi:10.1080/21642850.2022.2149930, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21642850.2022.2149930.
Crutzen R, Peters GY, Noijen J (2017). “Using Confidence Interval-Based Estimation of Relevance to select social-cognitive determinants for behaviour change interventions.” Frontiers in Public Health, 5, 165. ISSN 2296-2565, doi:10.3389/fpubh.2017.00165.
Crutzen R, Peters GY (2023). “A lean method for selecting determinants when developing behavior change interventions.” Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 11(1), 2167719. ISSN 2164-2850, doi:10.1080/21642850.2023.2167719, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21642850.2023.2167719.
Corresponding BibTeX entries:
@Manual{,
title = {The {behaviorchange} Package: Tools for Behavior Change
Researchers and Professionals},
author = {Gjalt-Jorn Ygram Peters and Rik Crutzen and Stefan
Gruijters},
year = {2025},
url = {https://behaviorchange.opens.science},
}
@Article{metz_acyclic_2022,
title = {Acyclic behavior change diagrams: a tool to report and
analyze interventions},
volume = {10},
issn = {2164-2850},
shorttitle = {Acyclic behavior change diagrams},
url =
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doi = {10.1080/21642850.2022.2149930},
language = {en},
number = {1},
urldate = {2023-03-04},
journal = {Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine},
author = {Gido Metz and Gjalt-Jorn Ygram Peters and Rik Crutzen},
month = {dec},
year = {2022},
pages = {1216--1228},
file = {Full
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report.pdf:application/pdf},
}
@Article{crutzen_using_2017,
title = {Using {Confidence} {Interval}-{Based} {Estimation} of
{Relevance} to select social-cognitive determinants for behaviour
change interventions},
volume = {5},
copyright = {All rights reserved},
issn = {2296-2565},
doi = {10.3389/fpubh.2017.00165},
abstract = {When developing an intervention aimed at behaviour
change, one of the crucial steps in the development process is to
select the most relevant social-cognitive determinants. These
determinants can be seen as the buttons one needs to push in
order to establish behaviour change. Insight into these
determinants is needed to select behaviour change methods (i.e.,
general behaviour change techniques that are applied in an
intervention) in the development process. Therefore, a study on
determinants is often conducted as formative research in the
intervention development process. Ideally, all relevant
determinants identified in such a study are addressed by an
intervention. However, when developing a behaviour change
intervention, there are limits in terms of, for example,
resources available for intervention development and the amount
of content that participants of an intervention can be exposed
to. Hence, it is important to select those determinants that are
most relevant to the target behaviour as these determinants
should be addressed in an intervention. The aim of the current
paper is to introduce a novel approach to select the most
relevant social-cognitive determinants and use them in
intervention development. This approach is based on visualization
of confidence intervals for the means and correlation
coefficients for all determinants simultaneously. This
visualization facilitates comparison, which is necessary when
making selections. By means of a case study on the determinants
of using a high dose of MDMA (3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine,
commonly known as ecstasy), we illustrate this approach. We
provide a freely available tool to facilitate the analyses needed
in this approach.},
journal = {Frontiers in Public Health},
author = {Rik Crutzen and Gjalt-Jorn Ygram Peters and Judith
Noijen},
year = {2017},
keywords = {methods, determinants, intervention development,
Determinants, behavior change, Methods, beliefs, i, based
estimation of relevance, Behavior change, Beliefs, confidence
interval-, Confidence Interval- Based Estimation of Relevance,
Intervention development},
pages = {165},
file =
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}
@Article{crutzen_lean_2023,
title = {A lean method for selecting determinants when developing
behavior change interventions},
volume = {11},
issn = {2164-2850},
url =
{https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21642850.2023.2167719},
doi = {10.1080/21642850.2023.2167719},
language = {en},
number = {1},
urldate = {2023-03-04},
journal = {Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine},
author = {Rik Crutzen and Gjalt-Jorn Ygram Peters},
month = {dec},
year = {2023},
pages = {2167719},
file = {Full
Text:C\:\\Users\\gjalt\\Zotero\\storage\\3QRK4QNT\\Crutzen and
Peters - 2023 - A lean method for selecting determinants when
deve.pdf:application/pdf},
}