Health Behaviour Change 1

Question 1

what is a Health behaviour change intervention

Answer 1

efforts aimed at changing what people do, which impacts their health

Question 2

Characteristics of HBC intervention

Answer 2

• > impacts on health can be positive or negative
• > HBC interventions are not necessarily motivated by improving health
• > HBCI do not necessarily use health arguments to influence behaviours
• > includes “individual level” and “environmental level” interventions

Question 3

5 elements of HBC interventions

Answer 3

1. Format of Delivery
   - > How int. is delivered (i.e poster or ad)
2. Behaviour change techniques
   - > what int. includes
3. Theory
   - > how the int. is supposed to work
4. Target behaviour
   - > what the int. tries to change
5. Target population
   - > who the intervention targets

Question 4

characteristics of the target population of HBC interventions

Answer 4

• > population will have suboptimal levels of performance of the target behaviour
• > can benefit from behaviour change

Question 5

What is Behaviour

Answer 5

anything a person does in response to internal or external events

• > behaviours are physical events that occur in the body and are controlled by the brain

Question 6

Health behaviours

Answer 6

are any behaviours that impact on peoples physical and mental health and quality of life

Question 7

Answer 7

Question 8

changing behavior includes…

Answer 8

• > starting somthing new
• > stopping somthing
• > swapping one behaviour for another
• > do more or less of something