Helsinki University's Behaviour Change and Wellbeing research at the EHPS Conference 2018

Our research group is ready for the 32nd European Health Psychology Conference in Galway!

Over the next four days, members of our group will give altogether 11 presentations, listed below.

Please come and meet us!

Wednesday 22.8.

ORAL SESSION: DIETARY BEHAVIOUR CHANGE

10:15 Implicit Process Interventions in Eating Behavior: a Meta-analysis Examining Mediators and Moderators

Matthias Aulbach

Thursday 23.8.

ORAL SESSION: BEHAVIOUR CHANGE: THEORY INFORMED PRACTICE

11:15 Self-managing motivation and behaviour change: Developing a taxonomy and toolkit of self-enactable techniques

Keegan Knittle

ROUNDTABLE: BEYOND ACADEMIA: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF APPLYING HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH IN PRACTICAL SETTINGS

11:05 Policy Perspective

Nelli Hankonen

ORAL SESSION: THEORY TESTING AND DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTH BEHAVIOUR CONTEXT

14:30 What predicts the uptake of mindfulness practice in youth? Applying the Reasoned Action Approach

Marguerite Beattie

ORAL SESSION: IMPROVING THE INTERPRETATION OF RESEARCH FINDINGS

15:00 Enhancing reproducibility and comprehension of research findings: Transparent communication of quantitative results using modern tools

Matti Heino

Friday 24.8.

STATE OF THE ART: METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES

11:00 State of the art talk: ‘Looking beyond delivery’: Toward more scientific and multidimensional assessments of intervention fidelity of behaviour change interventions

Fabiana Lorencatto & Nelli Hankonen

ORAL SESSION: BARRIERS AND ENABLERS TO HEALTHCARE CHANGE AND IMPLEMENTATION

12:00 Changing one’s motivating style: Pre-service PE teachers’ experiences in using motivational interaction techniques in practice

Elina Renko

SYMPOSIUM: RISK COMMUNICATION IN NEW ERA OF GENOMICS

14:00 Willingness to receive four different types of genetic risk information – A population based study

Ari Haukkala

14:45 Does the type of disease matter when receiving genetic secondary findings? A qualitative vignette study

Marleena Vornanen

Poster Session: Changing Behaviour: Challenges and solutions (15.30)

What inspires youth to take up physical activity? Critical incidents in trial participants’ interviews

Katri Kostamo

Saturday 25.8.

ORAL SESSION: MOBILE TECHNOLOGY AND SELF-MANAGEMENT

9:15 Precious n-of-1 trial: how within-person variation in motivational determinants explains changes in daily physical activity

Johanna Nurmi