SynthesisHealth psychology review2021
Self-regulatory behaviour change techniques in interventions to promote healthy eating, physical activity, or weight loss: a meta-review.
Synthesis in Health psychology review, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02997943 (SMART Weight Loss Management), which is not on this map. Cited by 48 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
SMART Weight Loss Management
Who cites it
48 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.
- Behavior Change Techniques in Digital Health Interventions for Promoting Adolescent Health Behaviors: Systematic Umbrella Review.JMIR mental health · 2026Pooled it
- Clinical Usability of Exercise Prescription Apps for Professional Use: Systematic Review and Multidimensional Evaluation.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Pooled it
- Effectiveness of booster strategies to promote physical activity maintenance: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Workplace Physical Activity Coaching.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2023Pooled it
- Scope, Characteristics, Behavior Change Techniques, and Quality of Conversational Agents for Mental Health and Well-Being: Systematic Assessment of Apps.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
- Effect of In-Person Delivered Behavioural Interventions in People with Multimorbidity: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Behaviour Change Techniques in Weight Gain Prevention Interventions in Adults of Reproductive Age: Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Effective behavior change techniques to promote physical activity in adults with overweight or obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- Self-Monitoring via Digital Health in Weight Loss Interventions: A Systematic Review Among Adults with Overweight or Obesity.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2021Pooled it
- Key Factors Associated with Adherence to Physical Exercise in Patients with Chronic Diseases and Older Adults: An Umbrella Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- What matters to cardiac patients? The impact of linking life goals to health goals on patients' intention-to-change-lifestyle: an online experiment.British journal of health psychology · 2026Trial
- Effectiveness, Moderators and Mediators of Self-regulation Intervention on Older Adults' Exercise Behavior: a Randomized, Controlled Crossover Trial.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Trial
- A Factorial Experiment to Optimize Remotely Delivered Behavioral Treatment for Obesity: Results of the Opt-IN Study.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2020Trial
- Optimizing Goal Difficulty in a Digital Weight Loss Intervention: The Ignite Pilot Randomized Trial.Obesity science & practice · 2026Article
- Messages and Notifications for the "OA Coach" Knee Osteoarthritis Self-Management Mobile App: Codevelopment and Evaluation Using a Participatory Research Design With Focus Groups and Surveys.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Feasibility Study of a Behavioral Oral Health Intervention for People With Mental Health Challenges: A Self-Regulation Approach.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Physical activity interventions for older adults - an overview of systematic reviews.BMC public health · 2026Review
- Nutrition knowledge and healthy-eating attitudes: the role of physical activity and lifestyle factors in adults.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Psychological stress and eating behaviors as interacting influences on patient-reported disease activity in Italian patients with inflammatory bowel disease.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Health literacy relates to self-regulation of eating behavior through physical activity and self-efficacy pathways.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Poor quality diet, physical inactivity, and obesity are prevalent, covariant risk factors for chronic disease, suggesting that behaviour change techniques (BCTs) that effectively change one risk factor might also improve the others. To examine that question, registered meta-review CRD42019128444 synthesised evidence from 30 meta-analyses published between 2007 and 2017 aggregating data from 409,185 participants to evaluate whether inclusion of 14 self-regulatory BCTs in health promotion interventions was associated with greater improvements in outcomes. Study populations and review quality varied, with minimal overlap among summarised studies. AMSTAR-2 ratings averaged 37.31% (
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