Health Behaviour Change Flashcards
Examples of predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors
- Predisposing: encourage a behaviour change or inhibit us from changing
ex: Knowledge of what constitutes healthy eating - enabling: make decisions more convenient or more challenging
ex: want to eat healthy but don’t know how to cook - Reinforcing: include support or discouragement from the people and situations around us
ex: you start eating healthy and your coworker praises you for it
Difference between goals and objectives
- goals: a broad statement of direction or intent
- objectives: clear and precise statements about the steps, if completed, that will lead to the goals
The elements of an object
– the outcome to be achieved, or what will change
– the conditions under which outcome will be observed, or when the change will occur
– the criterion for deciding whether the outcome has been achieved or how much change
– the priority population, or who will change
Describe the health belief model
- used to help explain and predict health behaviour, considers social, ecological, and environmental factors
Benefits: people change when there is something in it for them
Barriers: a negative aspect that acts on an impediment
Susceptibility: people will change if they believe they are at risk
Severity: likelihood of change depends on seriousness of not changing
Cues to action: people will change when something helps them move from thinking about change to actually making change
Self-efficacy: individual belief in one’s ability to make and follow through on lifestyle changes
Transtheoretical model
- developed to understand smoking cessation; used for a variety of health behaviours
- behaviour changes over time through a sequence of stages
steps: - precontemplation - contemplation – preparation – action – maintenance - termination
Types of intervention strategies
– communication
– education
– policy
– other
