Theory name and description | Covers the entire feedback process | Includes important factors in health care quality improvement | |||||
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Selecting clinical topics | Collecting and analysing data | Producing and delivering feedback | Making changes to clinical practice | Team-based change [5] | Context [123] | Intervention implementation [17] | |
Control Theory [14] | |||||||
Proposes that behaviour is regulated by a negative feedback loop, in which a person’s perception of their current state is compared against a goal. People strive to reduce perceived discrepancies between the two by modifying their behaviour. | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Goal Setting Theory [15] | |||||||
Explains how goals (defined as the object or aim of an action) affect task performance and how performance can be influenced by factors including commitment, goal importance, self-efficacy, feedback, and task complexity. | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Feedback Intervention Theory [16] | |||||||
Describes how feedback can influence behaviour and describes factors that determine whether feedback has a positive or negative influence on performance. Factors include feedback intervention cues; task characteristics; and situational variables (including personality). Feedback Intervention Theory draws upon ideas in both Control Theory and Goal Setting Theory. | Somewhat | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |