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What are the most common causes of death?

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Cardiovascular disease, cancers, strokes, chronic lung disease, unintentional accidents, suicides

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Name the 2 frames of health communication .

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Gain frame and loss frame

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Gain Frame

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Emphasizes benefits associated with behaving a certain way

Ex. Health promoting behavior, risk averse

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Loss Frame

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Emphasizes cost associated with not behaving this way

Ex. Illness detection behaviors, risk seeking

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Mouth Rinse Study

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Gain and Loss Frame; slide 18-21 on health communications

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Approach-orientation

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People who actively seek out positive and good things: gain frame
“When I see an opportunity for something I like, I get excited right away”

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Avoidance-orientated

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People who actively try to avoid negative things: loss frame

“I worry about making mistakes”

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Message Framing and Type of Person Study

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Approach and Avoidance people; slide 26-30 of health communications

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Paradox of Personal Relevance

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The people that relate to the information the most are the least likely to accept it

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Self Affirmation Theory

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The goal of the self system is to maintain global self integrity

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How do people respond to threading health information?

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  1. Change their health behavior
  2. Deny the health information
  3. Affirm the self in alternative domain
    - family, religion
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Reducing Defensiveness I Study

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  1. Affirmation essay or not
  2. Watch video about AIDS in young people
  3. Measure risk for HIV and whether they take condoms
    Results: affirmed people reported feeling more at risk for HIV, twice as likely to buy condoms
    Slide 35-36 of health communications
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Reducing Defensiveness II Study

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  1. Affirm self or not
  2. Read threatening coffee article
  3. Measures acceptance of information and intentions to change behavior
    Results: Affirmed coffee drinkers more likely to accept risk, more likely to intend to change behavior
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Effective interventions are based on _____

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Theory

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Scare Tactics

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Intended tomaniplate public opinion about a particular issue by arousing fear or alarm; does not work

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Effective interventions target _______ and appropriate levels

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Multiple; individual, couple, family, community

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Effective interventions are usually intense in ____ and _____

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Larger size results in larger changes, more likely to lead to sustained behavior change

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Stanford 5-city study

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Slide 9 in behavior change

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D.A.R.E study

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Slide 10-11 behavior change

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Active Peer Pressure

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An actual demand; not so common

Ex. Have a drink or you are a loser

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Passive Peer Pressure

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Internalized norm, very common

Ex. You noticed that the cool kids are drinking

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Effective interventions target people who are ___________ at ______

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Don’t miss people who ARE at risk even if it’s hard to find them
Don’t target people who are NOT at risk even if they are right in front of you

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Effective interventions are tailored to the ________

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Understandable language, relatable interveners

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American Legacy Foundation

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Slide 19-22 anti smoking

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Effective interventions keep ____ and ______ prevention distinct

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Primary: keep someone from starting something unhealthy/getting illness
Secondary: intervening early to stop a behavior before it gets worse/reduce the damage an illness causes

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26
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Do abstinence pledges work?

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Slide 25 in behavior change

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Effective interventions are ______

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Slide 29 behavior change

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Effective interventions are appropriate for individuals levels of readiness to _____

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Slide 30 in behavior change

29
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Preventing Teen Pregnancy

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Baby stimulator programs: virtual infant parenting of a realistic child (13-15 yo)
Free long term birth control: IUDs or implants

30
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Name the 5 Behavior change models

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  1. Health belief model
  2. Theory of planned behavior
  3. Diffusion of innovations model
  4. Stages of change model
  5. Self regulation models/strategies
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Health belief model

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  1. Belief that there is a health threat

2. Belief that a behavior can reduce threat

32
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Health belief model study

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HBM interventions: 40% had a mammogram in the next 6 months

Control group: 17%

33
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Theory of planned behavior

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Attitudes are a function of: beliefs about the outcome of an action, evaluation of the outcome
Norms are a functions of: perception of other’s support, motivation to comply with others’ wishes

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Perceived behavioral control

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An individual’s belief in her capacity to execute behaviors necessary to produce a certain outcome

35
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Diffusion of Innovation model

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Knowledge, persuasion, behavior change, confirmation

- opinion leaders: influence others decision

36
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Diffusion of Innovation Model Study

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  1. Identify opinion leaders
  2. Train opinion leaders
    - how to share safe sex
  3. Opinion leaders spread the word
    Results: unsafe sex decreased by 30% in this approach no change in control towns
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Stages of change model

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PCPAM:

  1. Pre contemplation: person does not recognize the problem
  2. Contemplation: seriously considering the possibility of change
  3. Preparation: making a commitment to change
  4. Action: modifying behavior for 3-6 months
  5. Maintenance: modifying lifestyle to avoid relapse (6+ months)
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Self regulation models

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The process that people use to set, pursue, and attain goals

39
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Self Regulation Strategies

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  1. Prospective strategies
  2. Automated strategies
  3. Reconstrual strategies
  4. Effortful inhabition of temptation
40
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Prospective strategies

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Think of a challenge that might come up them commit to a will help avoid the problem

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Automated strategies

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Making something into a habit by pairing it with repeated behavior
- Implementation Intentions

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Implementation intentions

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If-then plans for doing a particular behavior in a particular behavior in a particular context
“If I am in line at the snack bar, then I will order an apple.”

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Implementation intentions study

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  1. List ways you can overcome a barrier
  2. Form into implementation intentions
    Ex. If I am going on a date, then I will put a condom in my purse
    Results: pregnancy rates 40% lower for 2 years
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Reconstrual strategies

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Cool construal: abstract, distance, high-level, rational
- effective for self control
Ex. Candy has lots of calories and c an lead to weight gain
Hot construal: concrete, immediate, low-level, emotional
- less effective for self control
Ex. This chocolate is caramel and yummy, makes me happy when I eat it

45
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Effortful Inhibition of Temptation

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Using willpower to resist something you want

Fails often

46
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Ice cream diet study I

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The eating of non dieters is influenced by hunger than by cognitive, social or emotional factors
- Doesn’t matter if they’re: stressed, if another is in the room, after a preload

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Ice Cream Study II

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The eating of dieters is influenced by hunger than by cognitive, social or emotional factors than by hunger
- eat more if they’re: stressed, if another is in the room, after a preload

48
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Development and Eating

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Amount of calories eaten at particular meals from day to day : highly variable
Amount of calories eaten per day from day to day: highly stable
Conclusion: children regulate their intake by day

49
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What determines what people eat

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Parents decide: what foods to offer, when meals will occur, where
Kids decide: how much to eat, whether to eat at all

50
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Semi starvation study

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WWII slide 25-30; even though they were eating they were still hinge this continued after a year of study

51
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Name some psychological effects of starvation

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Obsession with food
Eating rituals 
Weak
Tired
Irritable 
No self control
Apathetic
52
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Effects on exercise on health

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Average weight loss 7 pounds

58 obese subjects exercise 5 times a week for 12 weeks burned 500 calories

53
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Overall benefits of exercise

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Improves: heart rate, blood pressure, waist circumference

54
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Beta waves

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Awake
High frequency
Low voltage

55
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Alpha waves

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Awake, but relaxed getting ready for bed
Higher voltage
More regular

56
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Sleep stage 1

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Transitional stage
Theta brain waves
Lasts from 10 seconds to 10 minutes

57
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Sleep stage 2

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Theta waves
Sleep spindles
Lasts 10-20 minutes
Beginning of actual sleep

58
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Stage 3 sleep

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Theta and delta

59
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Sleep Stage 4

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Only delta waves
Deepest stage of sleep
Important for: restoration and growth
Immune functioning

60
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Stage 5 REM

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Rapid eye movement
Paradoxical sleep
Memory storage and retention, learning, organization

61
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Physical consequences of sleep and deprivation

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Drowsiness 
Colds and sleep
Weight gain
Heart disease
Poor athletic performance
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Psychological consequences of sleep and deprivation

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Worsens mood
Increased stress and anxiety
Reduced mental functioning
Memory problems

63
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Sleep hygiene

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Promotion of good sleep habits and regular sleep

64
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Mortality

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Females are healthier

Life span, death rates, causes

65
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Morbidity

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Disability, hospital usage, physician visits

66
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Sources of biological differences

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  1. Hormone differences (cardiovascular system)
  2. Recessive X chromosome disorders (hemophilia)
  3. Different parts (testicular or prostate cancer)
67
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Men vs women

Social support, stress, social roles

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Social support: women have more
Stress: women=men?
Social roles: women approach, men avoidant

68
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What illnesses are found late in women

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Heart disease, HIV

Women die from this because they thing it’s a man’s diseases

69
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Longitudinal studies of aging stereotypes

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People with negative views of aging:

  • did worse on hearing tests
  • less likely to engage in preventative health behaviors
  • died sooner

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