HBCP/APRICOT Tools

We are developing online tools and resources to facilitate a wide range of users in their research, evidence syntheses and prediction of outcomes. These include:

  1. Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology (BCIO) search and visualisation tools: To find entities in the BCIO, explore the BCIO and its branches, and see how entities in the BCIO relate to each other.
  2. Paper and Protocol Authoring and Annotation Tool: To write intervention evaluation reports (for randomised trials and feasibility studies) and protocols in a structure linked to ontologies. This ensures full reporting, that all relevant information is reported in a digitally accessible manner.
  3. Theory and Techniques Tool: To map behaviour change techniques onto their hypothesised mechanisms of action; in the future this will be enabled using the Behaviour Change Technique Ontology along with the Mechanisms of Action Ontology.
  4. Behaviour Change Theory Database Exploration Tool: To explore and compare behaviour change theories represented ontologically.
  5. The BSSO Foundry: The Behavioural and Social Sciences Ontology Foundry provides a repository of ontologies, as well as an open community of practice and exchange (accessed at https://bssofoundry.org/).
  6. HBCP Outcome Prediction Tool: To predict smoking cessation outcomes using information about the content and delivery of interventions, the population, setting and methodological features of the study.
  7. HBCP Study Findings and Research Browser Tools: 1) To find relevant studies in a given area and, 2) where study reports have had detailed information extracted using the BCIO, to search for studies using that information.
  8. AI in Public Health Decisions Toolkit: To help those who need it to make decisions around using Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems for Public Health, an extension to the HBCP, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
  9. Behaviour Change Technique Training Tool: To help code descriptions of intervention content using the BCTTv1 taxonomy