Effectiveness of a Brief Internet-delivered Behaviour Change Intervention Among Healthy Middle-aged Adults

The Brief Action Planning exercise is a previously developed goal-setting exercise which has been designed to incorporate aspects of motivational interviewing such as compassion, acceptance, evocation, and partnership. It is a tool that allows participants to identify an aspect of their life they would like to improve upon and guides them through the process of making a specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely (SMART) goal. It also assesses their confidence in achieving this goal so as to assist with making alternative plans if confidence is low.

The Goal Setting exercise allows participants to identify an aspect of their life they would like to improve upon without incorporating aspects of motivational interviewing components or providing any guidance on how to set this goal.