EH2 Week 9 Flashcards
Define Health Behaviour
Action to maintain good health to prevent illness
Explain the three basic principles underlying health behaviour
1) Lifestyle disorders are strongly influenced by the person’s behaviour and habits
2) Risk behaviours are modified to improve the quality of life and increase longevity
3) Behaviour change can be done naturally or through prescribing medications
What are the three things that health behaviour is determined by?
1) Values: importance of the attachment to health
2) Belief: A person’s influence on their own health
3) Attitude: Expression of our values and beliefs
What are the four reasons why unhealthy behaviours are hard to change?
1) More pleasurable
2) More addictive
3) Resistant to change
4) Becomes automatic
Define each of the following
A) Addiction
B) Reinforcement
C) Tolerance
D) Withdrawal
A) Overwhelming desire to continue taking the drug, becomes a habit through continuation
B) Establishing a pattern of behaviour
C) Your body gets used to the drug, reducing it’s effectiveness
D) Experiencing symptoms or side effects when you stop using the drug
What are the six stages of the Transtheoretical Model
1) Pre-contemplation
2) Contemplation
3) Preparation
4) Action
5) Maintenance
6) Relapse
Define Pre-Contemplation
What is your role in this stage?
- Doesn’t recognize the need for a change
- Never occurred to them that they need to change their behaviour
- Unwilling to change their behaviour
- Behaviour change will not occur within the next 6 months
Your role: moving people from pre-contemplation to contemplation
Define Contemplation
What is your role in this stage?
- Considering the change
- On the cycle of considering a change
- Not ready to actively plan a change
- Behaviour may occur within the next 6 months
Your role: more focused on the change, providing information and encouragement for the change
Define Preparation
What is your role in this stage?
- Have not made the change, are actively preparing
- Actively decided to make a change
- Working out a plan
- Behaviour change occurs in the next 30 days
Your role: assist with support programs, create follow-up appointment to address concerns
Define Action
What is your role in this stage?
- Has stopped the unhealthy behaviour
- Replaced it with a reward or healthy behaviour
- Occurred in the last 6 months
Your role: encouragement and support, arrange follow-up appointment to raise their confidence
Define Maintenance
What is your role in this stage?
- Actively working to maintain the change
- Consciously making the change every day
- Supported with other therapies
- Successfully practiced the behavior for 6 months
- Post 30 days (moving to stability with the lifestyle)
- At 3 months relapse is less likely to occur
Your role: support and congratulations
Define Relapse
What is your role in this stage?
- Return to the risky behaviour, not always
- Risky up to 30 days
- Stabilizes at 3-6 months
- Individual differences in relapse behaviour
Your role: Do not judge, help them view their relapse as part of their experiencing on achieving healthy behaviour
What are the three critical components for motivation?
Willing: perceives the importance of chance
Able: having confidence in their ability to make the change
Ready: Have their priorities and recognize it is time to change
Health Belief Model
What are the three factors that determines health behaviour?
1) Is there a perceived health threat to your personal health, how severe it is?
2) Will the particular health practice will be effective in reducing the threat, are they any barriers?
3) What are cues that can make the change in action, are you confident to make the change?
Explain Motivational Interviewing
A) Collaboration
B) Evocation
C) Honouring a patient’s autonomy
A) partnership between the patient and practitioner
B) The practitioner activates the patient’s motivation by laying out the reasons to consider the change, by connecting it to things they care about
C) At the end of the day, it is the patient’s decision
