Practitioners

	. Identify the behavioral medicine interventions that have been studied for particular health conditions . Review the available research for a particular behavioral medicine intervention

Researchers/Librarians

	. Identify which behavioral medicine interventions have been studied sufficiently to warrant writing systematic reviews about the efficacy and/or   effectiveness of that intervention . Identify which behavioral medicine interventions require additional research attention for specific health conditions

Consumers

	. Identify which behavioral medicine interventions have been studied for a particular health condition

Our scope includes articles that include behavioral components in the intervention implemented or the outcome assessed. Please see the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Field, the Health Promotion and Public Health Field, or the Occupational Health Field for additional resources if those are your specific areas of interest.

Karina W. Davidson, Ph.D.
Convenor, Cochrane Behav Med Field
Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons
New York, NY
USA

Background Articles

   We have composed several articles about why and how we initiated the Cochrane Behavioral Medicine Field.

Journal Articles

	Davidson, K. W., Trudeau, K. J., Ockene, J. K., Orleans, C. T., & Kaplan, R. M. (2004). A primer on current evidence-based review systems and their implications for behavioral medicine. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 28 , 226-238. (Available from www.sbm.org/ebbm/publications.asp.) Falzon, L., Trudeau, K. J. (2007). Developing a database of behavioral medicine interventions. Health Information & Libraries Journal,  24(4) , 257-266.

Newsletter Articles

	Trudeau, K. J., Falzon, L., & Davidson, K. W. (May 2005). Reviews of studies on behavioral medicine interventions actively sought within The Cochrane Collaboration. Newsletter of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine, 7(5). (Available at http://www.isbm.info/newsletter/7-5-2005.html.) Davidson, K.W., Trudeau, K.J., & Falzon, L. (April 2005). Update on the Probable Behavioral Medicine Field. Cochrane News, 33, 4. (Available at http://www.cochrane.org/newslett/ccnews33_lowres.pdf.) Davidson, K.W., & Trudeau, K.J. (Winter 2005) Formal exploratory meeting on the initiation of a Cochrane Behavioral Medicine Field. Outlook: A Quarterly Newsletter of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, p. 6. (Available at www.sbm.org/ebbm/outlook.asp.) Davidson, K. (Summer 2003). Recommended evidence based medicine resource: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. American Psychosomatic Society Newsletter, 14(2), 6. (Available at www.sbm.org/ebbm/publications.asp.)