Advancing cumulative evidence on behaviour change techniques and interventions: a comment on Peters, de Bruin, and Crutzen

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Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler: towards a protocol for accumulating evidence regarding the active content of health behaviour change interventions

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1. Peters et al. (2013) stated HIV prevention interventions’ ‘effectiveness decreased with epidemic duration’ (p. 6), citing a meta-analysis of 29 interventions (Lacroix, Pellowski, Lennon, & Johnson, 2013) that focused on administration of intervention content to couples in romantic relationships rather than the more typical target of individuals regardless of relationship status. Meta-analyses that evaluate temporal trends only rarely find significant changes in HIV prevention interventions’ success, including the Johnson et al. (2011) meta-analysis cited here, which examined 67 studies with 98 interventions focused on individual adolescents.