Behaviour Change Interventions

Written By Charlie Franklin

What we do?

We design behaviour change interventions, in collaboration with our experienced intervention development colleagues in the Leicester Diabetes Centre, focused on increasing physical activity and reducing sitting time. These interventions target a range of populations across different contexts, for example, office workers in occupational settings, young people in schools and adults in the community identified with or at risk of multiple long-term conditions. We have expertise in robustly evaluating these interventions through randomised controlled trials.

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Highlighted Research

  • Khunti K, Sukumar N, Waheed G, Gillies C, Dallosso H, Brough C, Davies MJ, Fitzpatrick C, Gray LJ, Highton P, Rowlands A, Yates T, Saravanan P. Structured group education programme and accompanying mHealth intervention to promote physical activity in women with a history of gestational diabetes: a randomized controlled trial. Diabetic Medicine. 2023:e15118. doi: 10.1111/dme.15118

  • Dasgupta K, Boulé N, Henson J, Chevalier S, Redman E, Chan D, McCarthy M, Champagne J, Arsenyadis F, Rees J, Da Costa D…Yates T. Remission of type 2 diabetes and improved diastolic function by combining structured exercise with meal replacement and food reintroduction among young adults: the RESET for REMISSION randomised controlled trial protocol. BMJ open. 2022;12(9):e063888. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063888

  • Edwardson CL, Biddle SJH, Clemes SA, Davies MJ, Dunstan DW, Eborall H, Granat MH, Gray LJ, Healy GN, Jaicim NB, Lawton S, Maylor BD, Munir F, Richardson G, Yates T, Clarke-Cornwell AM. Effectiveness of an intervention for reducing sitting time and improving health in office workers: three arm cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ. 2022 Aug 17;378:e069288. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-069288

  • Khunti K, Griffin S, Brennan A, Dallosso H, Davies MJ, Eborall HC, Edwardson CL, Gray LJ, Hardeman W, Heathcote L, Henson J…Yates T. Promoting physical activity in a multi-ethnic population at high risk of diabetes: the 48-month PROPELS randomised controlled trial. BMC medicine. 2021;19(1):130. doi: 10.1186/s12916-021-01997-4

  • Clemes SA, Varela-Mato V, Bodicoat DH, Brookes CL, Chen YL, Edwardson CL, Gray LJ, Guest AJ, Johnson V, Munir F, Paine NJ…..Yates T, King J. The effectiveness of the Structured Health Intervention For Truckers (SHIFT): a cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT). BMC medicine. 2022;20(1):195. doi: 10.1186/s12916-022-02372-7

  • Hartescu I, Stensel DJ, Thackray AE, King JA, Dorling JL, Rogers EN, Hall AP, Brady EM, Davies MJ, Yates T, Morgan K. Sleep extension and metabolic health in male overweight/obese short sleepers: A randomised controlled trial. Journal of Sleep Research. 2022;31(2):e13469. doi 10.1111/jsr.13469

  • Khunti K, Highton PJ, Waheed G, Dallosso H, Redman E, Batt ME, Davies MJ, Gray LJ, Herring LY, Mani H, Rowlands A, Yates T. Promoting physical activity with self-management support for those with multimorbidity: a randomised controlled trial. British Journal of General Practice. 2021;71(713):e921-30. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2021.0172

  • Herring LY, Dallosso H, Schreder S, Smith EJ, Waheed G, Gray LJ, Khunti K, Yates T, Highton PJ, Rowlands AV, Hudson I….Davies MJ. Physical Activity after Cardiac EventS (PACES): a group education programme with subsequent text message support designed to increase physical activity in individuals with diagnosed coronary heart disease: a randomised controlled trial. Open Heart. 2021;8(1):e001351. doi: 10.1186/s13063-018-2923-x

  • Edwardson CL, Biddle S, Clarke-Cornwell A, Clemes S, Davies M, Dunstan D, Eborall H, Granat M, Gray L, Healy G, Richardson G, Yates T, Munir F. A three arm cluster randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the SMArT Work & Life intervention for reducing daily sitting time in office workers: study protocol. BMC Public Health 2018. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-6017-1

  • Harrington DM, Davies MJ, Bodicoat DH, Charles JM, Chudasama YV, Gorely T, Khunti K, Rowlands AV, Sherar LB, Tudor-Edwards R, Yates T, Edwardson CL. Effectiveness of the ‘Girls Active’ school-based physical activity programme: A cluster randomised controlled trial. IJBNPA 2018. doi: 10.1186/s12966-018-0664-6

  • Clemes SA, Bingham DD, Pearson N, Chen Y, Edwardson CL, McEachan RRC, Tolfrey K, Cale L, Richardson G, Fray M, Altunkaya J, Bandelow S, Bhupendra Jaicim N, Salmon J, Dunstan DW, Barber SE. Stand Out in Class: Restructuring the classroom environment to reduce sitting time – findings from a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. IJBNPA 2020. doi: 10.1186/s12966-020-00958-z

  • Yates T, Edwardson CL, Henson J, Gray L, Ashra NB, Troughton J, Khunti K, Davies M. Walking Away from Type 2 Diabetes: a cluster randomized controlled trial. Diabetic Medicine 2017. doi: 10.1111/dme.13254

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