Health Behaviour Change 4

Question 1

What is included in the FoD of a behaviour change intervention

Answer 1

• > the provider (who delivers the intervention)
• > the format (how is the intervention delivered)
• > materials (what is the intervention)
• > setting (where is the intervention)
• > intensity (when and how much of the intervention is delivered)
• > tailoring (is the intervention personalized)
• > style (the look and feel of the intervention)

Question 2

Motivation: Pros and Cons

Answer 2

identify and compare reasons for wanting (pros) and not wanting (cons) change the behaviour

Question 3

Motivation: comparative imagining of future outcomes

Answer 3

prompt the imagining can comparing of future outcomes of changed versus unchanged behaviour

Question 4

Motivation: Goal setting (outcome and behaviour)

Answer 4

outcome

set a goal defined in terms of behaviour to be acheived

behaviour

set a goal defined in terms of a positive outcome of wanted behaviour

Question 5

Action: Action planning

Answer 5

• > prompt detailed planning of performace of behaviour (must include at least one of context, freqency, duration and intensity).
• > context may be environmental (physical or social) or internal (physical, emotional or cognitive)

Question 6

Action: Problem solving

Answer 6

analyse, or prompt the person to analyze, factors influencing behaviour and generate or select strategies that include overcoming barriers and/or increasing facilitators

Question 7

Action: self monitoring (behaviour)

Answer 7

establish a method for the person to monitor and record their behaviour(s) as part of a behaviour change strategy

Question 8

What is a habit

Answer 8

habit is a process by which a stimulus generates an impulse to act as a result of a learned stimulus-response association

Question 9

Three bases for habit formation

Answer 9

1. Context
2. Repetition
3. Reward

Question 10

habits have ____________

Answer 10

triggers (sometimes also called prompts/cues)

Question 11

self control

Answer 11

using willpower to resist the temptation

Question 12

how do people high in self control deal with the temptation

Answer 12

they seem to avoid dangerous temptations in the first place

Question 13

Prompt: Avoidance/reducing exposure to cues for the behaviour

Answer 13

avoid exposure to specific social and contextual/physical cues for the behaviour, including changing daily or weekly routines

Question 14

Prompts: Prompts/cues

Answer 14

introduce of define environmental or social stimulus with the purpose of prompting or cueing the behaviour