A systematic review of the impact of symptoms, experiences, and perceptions of the menstrual cycle on recreational physical activity of cyclically menstruating individuals: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This study proposes the addition of behavioural economics principles and health geography into the behaviour change wheel, academic.oup.com/tbm/article/14…

This study identifies divergent and convergent views on balancing best practice and reality in behavioral intervention development. The respondents were PIs with NIH funding; academic.oup.com/tbm/article/14…

This review shows moderate effectiveness of interventions targeting disadvantaged adolescents to reduce social inequalities of weight status; onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ob…

This review of placebo effects of procedural interventions in medicine and surgery found that such effects were largest for assessments of exercise capacity; jamanetwork.com/journals/jamas…

For those of us who prefer to exercise in the evening, here are some good news: everydayhealth.com/fitness/exerci…

This study from Canada finds that social media influencers play a substantial role in promoting unhealthy food products to children, primarily fast food items; ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

This review concluded that although attentional modification bias training is effective at manipulating attentional bias to food cues, there is limited evidence that such training impacts appetite and eating behaviors or leads to maintained weight loss; onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ob…

This RCT shows that it is possible to reduce both explicit self- and other-directed anti-fat biases; jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

This 7-year longitudinal study shows that sport participation is associated with lower risk for all-cause and cancer mortality; ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

The results of this meta-analysis have indicated that technology-assisted cardiac rehabilitation demonstrated comparable results to conventional/centre-based cardiac rehabilitation, sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This meta-analytic review finds that cognitive abilities are highly stable from adolescence to late adulthood, but only moderately stable in young children. Stability decreases with increasing time intervals and varies across different cognitive abilities; psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-51…

This article reviews research highlighting the interplay between self-control and control over one's surroundings; compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

A great primer on conducting power analyses for 'smallest effect size of interest” (SESOI) and equivalence testing; journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

This is a great article with some excellent examples of how to integrate experience sampling methodology and personal-social networks assessments; journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

Do behavioural change strategies work? 🤔Are health apps appropriate for people's needs? 🤷‍♀️

We answered these questions with Alessio Bricca in the new episode of our Podcast, The DRIBEN Lab.

You can listen to the episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/6LRuCZ…

A systematic review of the effects of nudges on healthy food choices of individuals from a low socio-economic background; sciencedirect.com/science/articl…