Policy Category | APEASE criteria met? | Behavioural domain | Description of potential delivery mechanisms |
---|---|---|---|
Communication/ Marketing | Yes | Capability - Psychological | Campaign materials. Video. Communication from professional bodies. Printable materials, including patient information, posters and digital prompts |
Motivation - Reflective | Behaviour monitoring tools, goal setting resources and workbook. Print and digital resources, including the evidence base on physical activity in managing specific conditions. Quotes from patients and influential professionals | ||
Motivation - Automatic | Demonstrate peer approval and encourage role modelling through resources, supporting campaigns and ambassador network. Develop video resources to model good quality conversations. Include patients, families and friends in campaigns to prompt patient-driven consultation on physical activity | ||
Environmental/ social planning | Yes. Effectiveness relies on successful communication and dissemination | Capability - Physical | Design flexible resources to support conversations no matter how much time is available. Support with campaign and training resources to promote skill acquisition |
Capability - Psychological | Support delivery of care in existing pathway models. Supporting materials aimed at promoting discussion and awareness | ||
Opportunity - Physical | Make available free and online for use on desktop, tablet or mobile device | ||
Motivation - Automatic | Social networking with ambassador programme, press & media and educational network | ||
Fiscal | No. Not practicable or acceptable | Â | Nil |
Guidelines | Yes | Capability - Physical | NICE guidelines recommend supporting outputs on delivery of physical activity and behavioural change, as well as disease-specific pathways and guidelines for best practice. Make resources available in regular IT systems, support with campaign and other resources, offline capability |
Capability - Psychological | Make healthcare professionals aware of guidelines recommending physical activity as part of routine disease management in their specialist area. | ||
Opportunity - Physical | An information dissemination plan including messages from professional bodies and trusted sources | ||
Motivation - Automatic | Draw attention to and provide education on current standards and guidelines. Seek endorsement from respected professional organisations | ||
Legislation | No. Not practical | Â | nil |
Regulation | Yes, although practicability relies on extrinsic regulation of best practice | Capability - Psychological | As expected by best practice standards, educate on the importance of including physical activity contacts as a regular part of routine clinical care. Reassure healthcare professionals on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. Make these resources available for pathway leaders to implement locally |
Motivation - Reflective | Design resources to support mandatory components of practice such as care pathways recommending brief advice on lifestyle factors or assessment of physical activity levels | ||
Service Provision | Yes | Capability - Physical | Structured guidance on how to use a resource during regular service delivery to facilitate ongoing learning during routine clinical practice |
Capability - Psychological | Promote role modelling through individual clinical practice, sharing the experience of others through online peer support. | ||
Opportunity - Physical | Directly address the time constraints of clinical practice by providing solutions based on available time. Make available resources promoting patients to initiate physical activity discussions such as posters and information leaflets for waiting rooms | ||
Opportunity -Social | Facilitate healthcare professionals developing networks to share and promote good practise around physical activity in clinical practice. Make slidesets available for peer group learning sessions | ||
Motivation - Reflective | Customise resources for each speciality to meet pathway and guidance requirements | ||
Motivation - Automatic | Frame concerns and barriers to physical activity in a conversational framework to support time-responsive learning and development during service provision. Base any ‘how-to-use’ resources on a clinical consultation model to augment existing practice. |