Behavior Change
Dimension 419 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Behavior Change measures the extent to which an expression focuses on shifts in habits, routines, functioning, or life patterns over time. It encompasses reported changes in health-related behavior, coping, daily functioning, and broader life circumstances, especially when framed relative to a prior period or event.
evidence final name · Substance use
Minimal Behavior Change
Expressions activating this band mention health, life circumstances, or personal experiences without clearly centering on change over time. The content is largely descriptive, background-oriented, or only loosely connected to altered habits or functioning.
Mild Behavior Change
Expressions activating this band identify specific changes or attempts to change in feelings, sleep, substance use, or daily life since a salient event or period. The change is present but typically confined to a particular behavior, symptom, or situation.
Moderate Behavior Change
Expressions activating this band describe concrete modifications in ongoing habits or functioning, such as smoking, drinking, concentration, or outlook, with clear reference to a before-and-after pattern. Change is treated as an established part of the person's recent experience rather than a passing adjustment.
High Behavior Change
Expressions activating this band center directly on whether life or habitual patterns have changed since a prior assessment or earlier period. The expression frames change itself as the primary topic, often in broad or summary form across multiple areas of life.
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Minimal Substance use: Expressions show no meaningful substance use content. The proxy is effectively absent. Expressions activating this band are unrelated to substance use.
Moderate Substance use: Substance use is experienced here as observable behavioral patterns associated with problematic or disordered functioning. This is the first band where substance use becomes detectable. Expressions activating this band engage with substance use at a level associated with formal behavioral assessment.
Intense Substance use: Substance use is experienced here as observable behavioral patterns associated with problematic or disordered functioning. Compared to the band below, substance use is more intense and concentrated but retains the same essential character. Expressions activating this band engage with substance use at a level associated with formal behavioral assessment.
Peak Substance use: Substance use is present here in a general or mixed form without a single dominant facet. Unlike the band below, where substance use was characterized by the behavioral form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band may reflect general or diffuse substance use.