Behaviour Change Technique Taxonomy Online Training

About

To replicate and implement behaviour change interventions in research and practice, we need an agreed language to report their content: their “active ingredients”. Behaviour change techniques (BCTs) are the smallest components of behaviour change interventions that, on their own and in favourable circumstances, can bring about change.

The Behaviour Change Technique Taxonomy project (2010–2013), funded by the UK’s Medical Research Council, developed a consensually agreed, reliable taxonomy for use across behaviours, disciplines and areas of interest, together with a training programme. More than 400 researchers, practitioners and policymakers took part.

The resulting BCT Taxonomy v1 (BCTTv1) is a cross-domain, hierarchically structured taxonomy of 93 distinct BCTs, each with a label, definition and examples. It offers a generally reliable method for specifying, interpreting and implementing the active ingredients of interventions to change behaviour, for both research and practitioner communities.

The taxonomy

The full taxonomy of 93 BCTs, with labels, definitions and examples, is available to download.

• BCT Taxonomy v1 (PDF)All 93 techniques with labels, definitions and examples
• The behavior change technique taxonomy (v1) of 93 hierarchically clustered techniquesMichie S, Richardson M, Johnston M, Abraham C, Francis J, Hardeman W, Eccles MP, Cane J, Wood CE (2013). Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 46(1), 81–95
• UCL Centre for Behaviour ChangeWhere this work is being taken forward

Interventions

Published intervention papers and reviews in which BCTs have been coded using BCTTv1, up to the end of July 2018, as listed on the original website. BCTs are shown as they were coded then. Adding new citations will return with the new website.

• Finding papers that use BCTTv1 (PDF)How to find papers coded with BCTTv1 published since July 2018, and set up alerts for new ones

Training

The online training lets you familiarise yourself with BCT labels, definitions and examples, and learn how to apply the taxonomy accurately, reliably and confidently.

New users

An introduction to the taxonomy and practice coding intervention descriptions.

Trained users

If you have attended a BCTTv1 workshop or completed the group tutorial programme, the training refreshes your knowledge and skills.

Training will return with the new website. Please get in touch below if you need help in the meantime.