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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Behaviour Change Theory Database Exploration Tool: To explore and compare behaviour change theories represented ontologically.
- 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/).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Behaviour Change Technique Training Tool: To help code descriptions of intervention content using the BCTTv1 taxonomy