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The Maintain IT model integrates factors not typically examined together to elucidate processes for behaviour change maintenance.
Practitioners should consider a holistic approach that combines various factors influencing behaviour change.
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The model aims to integrate factors not typically examined together in order to elucidate potential processes underlying a shift from behaviour initiation to long-term maintenance.
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Harnessing centred identity transformation to reduce executive function burden for maintenance of health behaviour change: the Maintain IT model
Ann E. Caldwell et al. · Health Psychology Review · 2018
DOI 10.1080/17437199.2018.1437551
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