Decisions around mental health disclosure are often complex, especially within university settings. To support students and staff at Maastricht University, a decision aid was developed to guide this process. This article presents findings from a think-aloud usability test and pilot study with Maastricht University students and staff to refine the tool before wider use. During the think-aloud study, participants tested the decision aid while verbalizing their thoughts. After the think-aloud sessions, we piloted the decision aid at the university, asking early users to complete a brief questionnaire. The think-aloud study showed positive user experiences, no major issues, and insights for refining the decision aid and guiding other decision aid developers. The pilot study participants reported no issues, using the decision aid to evaluate options post-decision and to consider disclosure. Future efforts should therefore focus on careful, systematic implementation and larger-scale testing (e.g., in the form of a randomized controlled trial) to ensure the tool effectively addresses the diverse needs of users.

People who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and people who hold other marginalised sexual or gender identities (LGBTQI+) often experience notable health disparities. These disparities arise due to a complex interplay between social, cultural, structural, and political factors. Yet, within the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS), queer-related topics, especially those beyond the scope of gay men and men who have sex with men, have received relatively little attention. Therefore a roundtable focused on this topic was organised during the 2023 EHPS conference to (1) briefly present various projects as examples of how health psychology has and can make a positive contribution to LGBTQI+ health, (2) map out why LGBTQI+ issues receive relatively less attention within health psychology and what other areas can learn from decades of work focusing on LGBTQI+ health, and (3) generate new broad research goals to give new impetus to LGBTQI+ focused research within health psychology. The discussion focused on four broad themes: (1) assessment and measurement of LGBTQI+-related characteristics and data analysis, (2) labelling and the potential for ‘othering’, (3) balancing idealism, activism, and scientific discourse, and (4) balancing individual and environmental foci and the role of interdisciplinary teams. While the roundtable sparked an in-depth discussions of LGBTQI+ topics within health psychology, there remains a critical need for a more comprehensive exploration of this topic.

(Pre)registrations may be useful to make psychological research both more diverse and more inclusive. However, to our knowledge there was no (pre)registration form available until now that focused on diversity and inclusivity, so we took the opportunity to develop one during a set of pre-conference workshops at the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) conference held in 2022 in Bratislava (Slovakia). This article describes the development and introduces the ‘Inclusivity & Diversity Add-On for Preregistration Forms.’

As research highlights the impact that climate change has on individual and planetary health, people might consider whether and how to reduce their ecological footprint, e.g., by engaging in pro-environmental behaviours (PEBs). However, the decision to engage in these behaviours might depend on how far along they are in the process of deciding to act pro-environmentally (i.e., different stages of decision making) and on their experienced difficulty in deciding in favour of the environment and which behaviour to conduct, (i.e., decisional conflict). To explore in which stage participants find themselves when it comes to environmental decisions and if their respective stages are associated with their experienced decisional conflict, an online questionnaire was distributed among a convenience sample of 418 English-, Dutch-, and Italian-speaking adults to measure determinants of PEBs, participants’ stages, and the extent to which they experience decisional conflict. We observed that participants who were further along in the stages experienced less decisional conflict. Therefore, we suggest that future interventions (e.g., decision aids) should take into account stages of decision making to better meet users’ needs, this can assist people in making environmentally friendly decisions.

Currently, we cannot confidently recommend the inclusion of explicit value clarification methods and computer-tailored advice within digital decision aids. However, they might result in higher nonuse attrition rates, thereby limiting their potential. As a lack of statistical power may have influenced the outcomes, we recommend replicating this study with some adaptations based on the lessons learned.

People make numerous health-related choices each day: For example, deciding to brush one’s teeth or to eat well and healthy – or not to do these activities. To support complex decisions and subsequent behaviour change, both Behaviour Change Interventions (BCIs) and Patient Decision Aids (PtDAs) have been developed and evolved independently to support people in health-related decision making. In this paper, we critically review BCIs and PtDAs, examine their similarities and differences, and identify potential for integration of expertise to increase the benefits for people engaging with healthcare and health behaviours.

The majority of sampled posts showed high levels of muscularity and leanness. In addition, posts depicting men adhering to this specific body type received significantly more responses (likes and comments). Norms and outcomes related to health (i.e., training to be healthy) were more commonly shown than appearance-related constructs (i.e., training to become attractive), and promotion of physical activity was more common than dietary behavior. However, findings are potential harmful to men’s body image, even if one considers that health-related messaging and physical active promotion was prominent. It remains debatable if men need to view very lean and very muscular men to encourage health-related behaviors.