With involvement from 17 NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices, the SOBC Program has sought to accelerate the investigation of common mechanisms of behavior change that cut across a broad range of health behaviors.

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What is SOBC? Behaviors are among the most important factors that determine whether people will live long, healthy lives. Researchers at SOBC are working to identify what underlies successful behavior change. Knowing what works and what doesn’t work is the key to helping people live healthier lives.

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Research funded during Stage 1 led to the identification of three broad classes of intervention targets that are highly relevant to understanding the mechanisms of behavior change: self-regulation, stress reactivity and stress resilience, and interpersonal and social processes.

The SOBC method aims to identify key mechanisms underlying successful change in health behaviors like diet and exercise. Going through the three steps of the method—Identify, Measure, and Influence—helps us to understand why an intervention worked or didn’t work.

2022年10月4日 · To date, SOBC researchers have identified three broad domains that show promise as potentially powerful mechanisms of behavior change: self-regulation, stress reactivity and coping, and social support. Self-regulation: Modifying or controlling your own behavior. Self-regulation has been studied widely for years.

The Science of Behavior Change (SOBC) Research Network seeks to improve the understanding of underlying mechanisms of human behavior change by promoting basic research on the initiation, personalization, and maintenance of behavior change.

2015年10月30日 · The SOBC program aims to promote an experimental-medicine approach to behavior change, in which scientists integrate tests of causal mechanisms that are the hallmark of basic research into the development and testing of behavior-change interventions.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Science of Behavior Change (SOBC) initiative was formed to support research on the basic mechanisms underlying health behaviors through grant funding and other processes. These efforts are aimed at reducing behavioral risk factors for disease as well as improving intervention adherence, Otto noted.