15: Stress, Coping, and Health - Health Promotion and Illness Prevention

Question 1

Health Promotion and Illness Prevention

Health psychology

Answer 1

the study of psychology and behavioural factors in the prevention and treatment of illness and in the maintenance of health

Question 2

Health Promotion and Illness Prevention

Health related behaviours fall into two main categories:

Answer 2

• Health enhancing behaviours – serve to maintain or increase health
• Health compromising behaviours – promote development of illness

Question 3

How People Change: The Transtheoretical Model

Answer 3

Identifies six major stages in process of how people change.

1. Precontemplation (problem unrecognized or unacknowledged),
2. Contemplation (recognition of problem, contemplating change),
3. Preparation (preparing to try and change),
4. Action (implementing change strategies),
5. Maintenance (behaviour change is being mastered),
6. Termination (permanent change, no maintenance efforts required)

• People do not go through stages in smooth sequence
  
  • Often go back and forth, and failure is likely if previous stages not mastered

Question 4

Research Foundations

Stress, Physical Contact, and Health: I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Question 5

Increasing Behaviours that Enhance Health

Question 6

Increasing Behaviours that Enhance Health

Exercise

Answer 6

Aerobic exercise – sustained activity that elevates heart rate and increases the body’s need for oxygen

Question 7

Increasing Behaviours that Enhance Health

Weight Control

Answer 7

Yo-yo dieting – severe intermittent dieting that results in large weight fluctuations

• Results in accumulation of abdominal fat, increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease

Question 8

Reducing Behaviours that Impair Health

Question 9

Reducing Behaviours that Impair Health

Prevention Programs