BEHAVIOR
Oral Self-Care
Studies on changing Oral Self-Care
STUDY
Mobile-izing Savings with Automatic Contributions: Experimental Evidence on Dynamic Inconsistency and the Default Effect in Afghanistan.
AUTHORS
T Ghani, M Callen, J Blumenstock
TACTICS
Automation, Smart Defaults
STUDY
Psychological, behavioral, and clinical effects of intra-oral camera: a randomized control trial on adults with gingivitis.
STUDY
Using intervention mapping to develop a home-based parental-supervised toothbrushing intervention for young children.
STUDY
An oral care self-management support protocol (OrCaSS) to reduce oral mucositis in hospitalized patients with acute myeloid leukemia and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a randomized controlled pilot study.
TACTICS
Education or Information
STUDY
Self-efficacy, planning and action control in an oral self-care intervention.
STUDY
A Brief Self-Regulatory Intervention Increases Dental Flossing in Adolescent Girls.
Tactics used to change Oral Self-Care
TACTIC
Education or Information
Education refers to empowering a person with more knowledge or training than they had previously. While providing information alone is often a suboptimal way to drive meaningful behavior change or long-term interventions, the right message at the right time can be a powerful part of a behavior change strategy.
TACTIC
Automation
Automation refers to having another person, group, or technology system perform part or all of the intended behavior. A prominent example is Thaler & Bernartzi's Save More Tomorrow intervention, which invested a portion of employees' earnings into retirement funds automatically and even increased the contribution level to scale with pay raises. Other examples include automatically scheduling medical appointments so the patient needn't do it themselves and mailing healthy recipe ingredients to the person's home to reduce the burden of shopping.
TACTIC
Smart Defaults
Defaults refer to what happens if a person makes no choice or goes with a pre-selected choice. The influence of defaults is a foundational component of behavioral economics. Perhaps the most famous example of defaults is the difference between opt-in and opt-out organ donation programs. While not universal, several studies have found that the rate of organ donation consent in a population seems to be influenced by the default (i.e., what happens if a person does not check a box or change the pre-selected preference on a form). Smart defaults do not only refer to one-off events, however. In the well-known Save More Tomorrow program, participants were not only included in a savings program by default, but the amount they saved was also changed over time automatically (again by default). Similarly, other behavior change programs have default settings that include at-home medication or food delivery, rules-based reminders on different platforms, etc.