Glossary
Self-monitoring of outcome(s) of behavior
What is self-monitoring of outcomes?
Self-monitoring of outcomes means recording results associated with your behavior as part of an effort to change it. The focus is on what happened, rather than only what you did.
Example
You might record your savings balance while separately tracking deposits and withdrawals. Deposits are actions. The balance is an outcome. Keeping both records gives you more context for interpreting changes.
A trend can be useful without proving its cause. Other factors can affect an outcome, so a better result does not automatically mean your new approach caused it.
The Behavior Change Technique Taxonomy identifies this as technique 2.4. Records kept only for research measurement do not count as this change technique.