{"id":466,"date":"2012-04-18T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=466"},"modified":"2012-04-18T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T16:50:09","slug":"mental-models-in-injury-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2012\/04\/18\/mental-models-in-injury-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Models in Injury Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month\u2019s editor\u2019s choice is <a href=\"http:\/\/injuryprevention.bmj.com\/content\/18\/2\/124.full\">Injury Prevention and Risk Communication: a mental models approach<\/a> by Laurel Austin and Baruch Fischhoff.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve published this special feature (which is free online) to highlight an empirically-grounded, systematic approach to thinking about health behavior, behavior change and intervention design. I suspect many of us use a \u2018mental models\u2019 framework as we think about prevention interventions, but fewer explicitly design and test their work in this fashion. And that\u2019s a shame.<\/p>\n<p>The authors make a strong case for the utility of a mental models approach and point to examples where the technique has been used to improve risk communication and preventive intervention. They outline 5 steps in systematically applying a \u2018mental models\u2019 framework to problem analysis and intervention:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Elicit domain expert beliefs and integrate them in a formal model of the risk situation.<\/li>\n<li>Elicit lay beliefs about the same domain.<\/li>\n<li>Compare expert and lay beliefs to identify consequential gaps and misperceptions.<\/li>\n<li>Use structured surveys to estimate the population prevalence of beliefs.<\/li>\n<li>Develop and empirically evaluate contextually relevant communications.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Have a look at the paper <a href=\"http:\/\/injuryprevention.bmj.com\/content\/18\/2\/124.full\">here <\/a>and let us know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d love to see submissions to the journal that make explicit use of this approach in understanding health behavior and designing preventive interventions.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month\u2019s editor\u2019s choice is Injury Prevention and Risk Communication: a mental models approach by Laurel Austin and Baruch Fischhoff. We\u2019ve published this special feature (which is free online) to highlight an empirically-grounded, systematic approach to thinking about health behavior, behavior change and intervention design. I suspect many of us use a \u2018mental models\u2019 framework [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2012\/04\/18\/mental-models-in-injury-prevention\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors-choice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}