Goal Commitment and Proactive Health Behavior in Chronic Disease Patients

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Goal Commitment-Based Behavioral Intervention: This intervention is a structured behavioral program based on goal commitment theory, designed to promote proactive health behaviors in patients with chronic diseases. The intervention includes goal setting, personalized action planning, behavioral activation, and continuous follow-up support. Participants will receive guidance to enhance motivation, strengthen commitment to health goals, and improve adherence to chronic disease management through regular monitoring and feedback.

Usual Care: Participants in the control group will receive routine chronic disease management or standard health education without additional structured behavioral intervention.

Study summary

Chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia are major contributors to mortality and healthcare burden worldwide. Despite high awareness of health risks, many patients fail to adopt proactive health behaviors due to behavioral inertia and a gap between knowledge and action.

This study aims to investigate the evolution and driving mechanisms of proactive health behavior in patients with chronic diseases based on goal commitment theory. By integrating prospect theory and evolutionary game theory, this study will explore how behavioral strategies evolve under different levels of goal commitment.

In addition, a behavioral intervention based on the Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) model will be developed to enhance patient activation and promote adherence to proactive health behaviors. A parallel controlled intervention study will be conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the goal commitment-based intervention.

The findings of this study are expected to provide theoretical and practical evidence to improve chronic disease management and promote proactive health behaviors.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Change in Proactive Health Behavior Score — Baseline to 6 months after intervention
  The primary outcome is the difference in the mean change of proactive health behavior scores between the intervention group and the control group at 6 months after the intervention. Proactive health behaviors will be assessed using a validated Proactive Health Behavior Scale, including overall score and component scores.

Trial sites (1)

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