Health Behaviour Change (1, 2, 3, 4) Flashcards
health behaviour change intervention
- effort times at changing what people do, which impacts their health
- negative or positive
- not necessarily to improve health
- not necessarily use health argument to influence behaviour
- individual and environmental level
individual and environmental health behaviour change interventions
- programs
- services and clinics
- brief interventions
- environmental prompts
- advertisements
- technology
5 elements of HBC interventions
- target population
- target behaviour
- theory
- behaviour change techniques
- format of delivery
target population
- target group for behaviour change
- can be specific or broad
- there can be a priority group
target population: the population will have…
- suboptimal levels of performance of the target behaviour
- benefit from behaviour change
behaviour
- anything a person does in response to internal or external evens
- physical events that occur in the body and are controlled by the brain
health behaviours
- any behaviours that impact on peoples physical and mental health and quality of life
specifying behaviour
- can be formulated at different levels of specificity
- high, medium, or low level
- more specific behaviours are easier to measure
measuring behaviours
- achieved or not, magnitude, frequency
behaviour change includes
- staring something new
- stopping something
- swapping one behaviour for another
- do more/less of something
piggybacking (brushing teeth & flossing)
what influences behaviour
- individual (demographics, personality, beliefs, and perceptions)
- environmental (physical and social environments, access to services)
what is a theory
- set of concepts and/or statement with specification of how phenomena relate to each other, that accounts for what is known, and explains and predicts phenomena
why use theory
- cumulative science argument
- prediction argument
- change argument
- “everyone uses them anyways” argument
cumulative science argument
- shared language/understanding
- summarises evidence
prediction argument
- allows to predict and generalize
change argument
- guides design o better interventions
- guides evaluation/understanding
“everyone uses them anyways” argument
- we all construct mental models
- need to be made explicit
types of theories
- motivations
- stage
- dual process
motivational theories
- focus on explaining motivation
- theory of planned behaviour
stage theories
- explain change as a progression through a series of stages
- transtheoretical model of behaviour change
- health action process approach
dual process theories
- focus on 2 different process of information processing
- reflective/impulsive, system 1/system 2
- RIM
theory of planned behaviour
- behaviour is determined by a persons intention
- intention in turn is determined by 3 factors: attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control
intention behaviour gap
- the gap between intended to perform the behaviour and actually performing the behaviour