Maintenance of Long Term Behavioral Change

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Maintenance of Long Term Behavioral Change: The above named organizations invites applications for research projects that (a) examine biopsychosocial processes and test interventions designed to achieve long-term health behavior change and (b) a Resource Center to provide coordination for this set of research projects. Past research has typically focused on short term behavioral change, yielding little information on how change, once achieved, is maintained over the long term. This Request for Applications (RFA) encourages investigators to expand on the current theoretical base of change processes and intervention models, as well as to consider new conceptualizations from basic research in the social and behavioral sciences. Applications must focus on important health-related behaviors already demonstrated amenable to short-term change, such as tobacco use, exercise, eating habits, alcohol and drug use, inoculation obtainment, disease screening, stress reduction, adherence to health care regimens,human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)or sexually transmitted infection (STI) risk practices, bullying and abuse of others, sun exposure, and failure to use safety equipment.