Chapter 3 Flashcards
Health Behaviours
Health Promotion
According to WHO
The process of enabling people to increase control over their health
What is the philosophy behind health promotion?
A philosophy that the idea that good health is a personal and collective achievement
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How does health promotion differ from disease prevention?
Although similar, they have differing understandings of health, what is this difference?
Disease prevention has a negative view, with a pure focus on the simple lack of disease while health promotion has a postive view of health, focusing on more than just the absense of disease
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What is the difference between health behaviours and health habit?
Health behaviours are behaviours preformed to better or maintain their health, while health habits are subconscious health-related tasks we preform automatically
Health Behaviours can be both negative (smoking) and positive (daily exercise), but is defined as listed above
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Factors of Influence on Health Behaviours
Try to name atleast 6/12
What are some factors that may influence whether someone is more or less likely to practice health behaviours?
- Socio-Economic
- Age
- Gender
- Values
- Locus of Control
- Social Influence
- Personal Goals
- Perceived Symptoms
- Access to Care
- Location
- Conduicive Enviroment
- Cognitive
Locus of Control: The belief of if you have control over your life
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What is the assumption behind health appeals?
People will change their health habits if provided the resources and information to make the changes
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When should loss-framed messages be used over gain-framed message when doing Educational appeals?
Gain-framed: Benefits of habit
Loss-framed: problems from non-prevention
Loss-framed messages work best when discussing illness detection behaviours or preventative behaviours
(testing and mammograms; Wearing a mask during COVID)
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When should grain-framed messages be used over loss-framed message when doing Educational appeals?
Gain-framed: Benefits of habit
Loss-framed: problems from non-prevention
Gain-framed messages should be used when discussing health promotion behaviours
(Applying sunscreen or brushing your teeth daily)
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Social Cognition Model
A model that believes that the beliefs held by a person about a certain behaviour will affect their decision to change it
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self-effiacy
The belief that one is able to control their practice of a health behaviour
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What are the 2 factors of the health belief system that relates to whether someone practices a certain health behaviour?
- Whether they perceive a person health threat from the consequences
- If the belief the behaviour will be effective in reducing the threat
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Transtheoretical model of behaviour change
A model that focuses on adressing the stages of behavioural change
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What are the stages of the transtheoretical Model of Behaviour change?
- Precontemplation
- Contemplation
- Preperation
- Action
- Maintenance
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Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy
An approach to behaviour modification that focuses on the target behaviour and the conditions/factors that elicit and reinforce it
May also focus on the persons belief around their habits
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What are the 3 components that the client needs to assess within the Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy model?
- Frequency of behaviour
- Antecedent (What happens before the behaviour)
- Consequences (What happens after the behaviour)
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Classical Conditioning
A conditioning method that involves pairing an unconditioned behaviour with a new stimulus, in order to create a unconditioned response to the stimulus
Pavlov’s dog
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Operant Conditioning
A conditioning method that involves pairing an voluntary behaviour with systematic consequences, in order to enforce or discourage habits
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Discriminative Stimulus
An enviromental or behavioural stimulus that elicits a target behaviour
Typically describes triggers for bad habits like stress for smokers
