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  • Purchasing products with sustainable palm oil: designing and evaluating an online intervention for Australian consumers

  • Cassandra Shruti Sundaraja, Donald W. Hine, Einar B. Thorsteinsson, Amy D. Lykins
  • Journal:
    Australian Journal of Environmental Education / Volume 39 / Issue 2 / June 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 June 2022, pp. 213-230
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  • Widespread tropical deforestation and biodiversity loss in Southeast Asia due to the oil palm industry can be addressed by encouraging consumers to purchase sustainable palm oil (SPO). An online experiment was conducted to assess whether addressing barriers relating to education, motivation and product availability would increase purchasing of SPO. Australian adults (n = 628) were randomly assigned to either: (1) a newly developed interactive educational website on palm oil and SPO; (2) an existing educational video on SPO; or (3) an interactive website on differentiating between real and fake news (an attentional control condition). All participants completed pre-intervention and immediate post-intervention measures. Most participants (n = 403) completed follow-up measures two weeks later. Multivariate analysis revealed that the interactive website and educational video increased both knowledge and the intention to purchase SPO (compared to the attentional control), but neither significantly impacted follow-up self-reported SPO purchasing behaviour. Low perceived product availability might help explain the intention–behaviour gap. Our results suggest that, in addition to increasing consumer knowledge and motivation, promoting sustainable consumption requires creating opportunities for people to engage in the desired behaviour.

  • 6 - Psychology and Sociology of Prescribing

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  • Edited by Molly Courtenay, Cardiff University, Matthew Griffiths, Birmingham City University
  • Book:
    Independent and Supplementary Prescribing
    Published online:
    23 December 2021
    Print publication:
    13 January 2022, pp 66-86

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the biopsychosocial factors that influence prescribing behaviour. It begins by introducing theories of behaviour to explore how health systems, pharmaceutical companies, individual professions, roles and identities, colleagues, patients, the time of day, personal beliefs, habits, emotions and the environmental setting can all influence prescribers and their prescribing behaviour. It also discusses the influences of wider society and culture and how that has also shaped healthcare, prescribing practice and patients’ understandings of illness and their expectations around healthcare and treatment. Having taken a look at all these influences on prescribing behaviour, it gives an overview of interventions that help prescribers optimise their prescribing decision making and prescribing behaviours as well as optimise patient satisfaction with and adherence to treatment. These include person-centred and shared decision making, using motivational interviewing to enhance communication during consultations and evidence-based training programmes that have used these approaches to optimise non-medical prescribing.