Purpose:                                  To 1) increase understanding of the processes of change and common mediators that influence
                                                the likelihood of health behavior change being initiated and subsequently maintained, and the
                                                impact of behavior change interventions on these mediators, and 2) draw on conceptual and
                                                methodological approaches in order to identify and promote analyses of common variables that
                                                mediate a wide range of health behaviors or that moderate these effects.

Progress to Date: A number of activities were started. Once the OBSSR supplements were issued the majority of those activities were subsumed under the supplements and our group became much less active as a group.

Challenges to Date: Finding ways to meaningfully integrate with supplement activities.

Next Steps: We voted to continue the Isaac Lipkus heuristic grid project, and Isaac has circulated an early description of a manuscript to interested parties. We will not convene a meeting at the HMC meeting.