Glossary
Monitoring of outcome(s) of behavior without feedback
What is monitoring outcomes of behavior without feedback?
Monitoring outcomes by others without feedback means recording the results associated with someone's behavior, with their knowledge, as part of a behavior-change strategy, without returning the results as feedback.
How the technique is defined
Pure research or administrative data collection is excluded from this taxonomy code. Providing the results to the person is a separate feedback technique.
Illustrative example
An energy-saving program could tell participants it will record their household electricity use as part of the change effort, but not send them individual usage reports.
Evidence and limits
The original BCT Taxonomy v1 definitions identify this as technique 2.5. The distinction is between recording an outcome as part of an intervention and giving the person feedback about it. Defining the technique does not establish that monitoring changes the outcome.