Patients with asthma can improve their disease control and sleep quality, while reducing depression and anxiety through a behavior change intervention aimed at increasing their physical activity.

Positive behavior interventions can work to improve behavioral and academic outcomes for all students, research has shown. But after the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, those benefits ...

The mission of the Purdue University Behavior Intervention Team (BIT) is to promote the safety and well-being of the Purdue University community. The team provides an institutional framework for ...

Now that online games have become so popular among K-12 students, school and district administrators can use gamification techniques to create a positive school climate and encourage positive behavior ...

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Americans enjoyed better overall health than at any other time in the nation's history. Rapid advancements in medical technologies, breakthroughs in ...

In classrooms across the country, teachers are facing a crisis that goes beyond test scores and curriculum standards. For many middle and high school educators, managing disruptive behavior has become ...

A majority of people with insomnia respond to behavioral and nonpharmacologic methods. When compared with pharmacologic methods, they are at least as efficacious and have the advantage of continued ...

Pandemics, global warming, and rampant gun violence are all clear lessons in the need to move large groups of people to change their behavior. When a crisis hits, researchers, policymakers, health ...