Good practice characteristics of interventions and polices
Although the number of studies on developing and testing the effects of interventions and policies is growing rapidly, practitioners, policy-makers and researchers indicate difficulties in eliciting factors responsible for a ‘success’ of interventions or policies [4]. ‘Successful’ interventions or policies may be defined as actions that result in significant and sustainable behavior changes and translate behavior change research into real-word settings [5]. Such successful interventions and policies may be characterized by a number of good practice characteristics. These characteristics may include the content of behavior change techniques [6] or aspects of delivery of these techniques [7]. Another line of research stresses that besides the content of an intervention or policy, other characteristics determining ‘successful’ promotion of healthy behaviors may refer to implementation strategies, settings, or integration with local practice