Behavior change interventions: the potential of ontologies for advancing science and practice

Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 6-22

  Larsen, Kai R ^a   Michie, Susan ^b   Hekler, Eric B ^c   Gibson, Bryan ^d   Spruijt Metz, Donna ^e   Ahern, David ^f   Cole Lewis, Heather ^g   Ellis, Rebecca J Bartlett ^h   Hesse, Bradford ⁱ   Moser, Richard P ⁱ   Yi, Jean ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g JOHNSON AND JOHNSON   (United States)

^h INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^j Clinical Research Division   (United States)

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Author keywords

Behavior change interventions; Behaviors; Controlled vocabularies; Mechanisms of action; Ontologies; Taxonomies

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; ONTOLOGY; TAXONOMY; BIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE; STANDARDS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS COMPUTING; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84982806169     PISSN: 01607715     EISSN: 15733521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10865-016-9768-0     Document Type: Article

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