Module 6 - Key Factors in Change Flashcards

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How did the CDC’s Anti-smoking campaign in 2012 impact the tobacco industry?

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  • No impact on earnings
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What were the most successful anti-smoking ads?

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  • emotionally evocative
  • Contain personalized stories
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Who plays an important role in disseminating health-related information other than health agencies and medical professionals?

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  • Mass Media
  • News Outlets
  • Internet
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What plays a role in whether or not health-related information is effective?

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  • The way its delivered
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What is educational appeal messaging?

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  • Provide general information (vs. tailored content)
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What does educational appeal messaging assume?

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  • People will be motivated to improve a health behaviour with correct information
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What factors must be considered about educational appeal messaging’s success rate?

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  • Colour/vividness of ads
  • Expertise, likeability, relatability
  • Avoidance of jargon/stats
  • Length of message
  • Placement of strong argument
  • Presentation of both sides
  • Clarity of conclusion
  • Avoidance of extremes
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What does message framing refer to?

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  • Whether information emphasizes the benefits (gains) or costs (losses) associated with a behaviour or decision
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What do gain-framed messages focus on?

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  • Attaining desirable consequences or avoiding negative ones
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Give an example of gain-framed messaging

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  • If you exercise, you will become more fit and less likely to develop heart disease
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What does gain-framed messaging work best for?

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  • motivating behaviours that serve to prevent or recover from illness or injury (eg., using condoms, performing physical therapy)
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What does loss-framed messaging focus on?

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  • Getting undesirable consequences and avoiding positive ones
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Example of loss-framed messages

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  • if you do not get your blood pressure checked, you could increase your chacnes of having a heart attack or stroke, and you will not know that your blood pressure is good.
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What does loss-framed messaging seem to work best for?

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  • Behaviours that occur infrequently and serve to detect a health problem early
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Example of things that loss-framed messaging works best for

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  • Drinking and driving
  • Getting a mammogram
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Explain fear appeal message framing

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  • assumes instilling fear will lead to change
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When is fear appeal message framing more persuasive?

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  • Emphasize consequences
  • Include personal information
  • Provide specific instruction
  • Boost self-efficacy before urging them to change
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Explain motivational interviewing

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  • One-on-one counselling style designed to help individuals explore and resolve their ambivalence in changing a behaviour
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What was motivational interviewing originally developed for?

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  • Counselling of alcoholics
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What kind of approach is motivational interviewing?

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  • Semi-directive, client-centered therapeutic
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What methods does motivational interviewing follow?

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  • Transtheoretical model of behaviour change and cognitive behavioural therapy
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What are the 2 key features of motivational interviewing?

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  • Decisional Balance
  • Personalized Feedback
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Explain decisional balance of motivation interviewing

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  • Clients list reasons for and against changing behaviour
  • Used for points of discussion
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Explain personalized feedback of motivational interviewing

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Clients received information on:
- pattern of problem behaviour
- Comparisons with norms
- Risk factors/consequences of behaviour

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What does BASICS stand for?

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  • Breif Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students
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What is BASICS?

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  • A harm reduction approach
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What was BASICS designed for?

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  • help students make better alcohol-use decisions based on a clear understanding of the risks associated with problem drinking
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How is BASICS applied?

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  • Over 2 brief interviews
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What was done during the 2 brief interviews of BASICS?

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  • Assess risk problem behaviours, obtaining commitment to monitor drinking between interviews.
  • Provide personalized feedback, including comparison to norms, risks, and advice on how to drink safely
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What strategies were suggested for the BASICS program?

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  • Slowing down
  • Spacing drinks
  • Different types of drinks
  • Drink for quality vs. quantity
  • Enjoy mild effects of alcohol
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What do behavioural methods focus on?

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  • Helping people manage the antecedents & consequences of a behaviour
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Explain what cognitive methods focus on

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  • changing people’s thought processes
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What is one popular intervention that focus on cognitive and behavioural methods?

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  • Cognitive behavoural therapy (CBT)
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What are the three parts of using cognitive behavioural therapy in its application to alcohol abuse?

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  • Identify unhelpful / unrealistic thoughts and beliefs that contribute to problems
  • Identify triggers (internal/external) that cause you to drink
  • Engage in more realistic and helpful thoughts
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What have electronic interventions that are guided by a therapist/counsellor shown to be clinically effective for?

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  • Substance abuse
  • Other problem behaviour
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What can cause difficulties in maintaining health behavioiur changes?

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  • Lapse
  • Relapse
  • Abstinence-Violation Effect
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Explain Lapse

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  • Instance of backsliding which does not indicate failure
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Explain example of lapse

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  • A person who quits smoking has a cigarette
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Explain Relapse

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  • Falling back to original pattern of undesirable behaviour
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When is relapse common?

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  • Trying to change long-term habits
41
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Explain Abstinence-Violation Effect

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  • Experience a lapse can destroy ones confidence in remaining abstinent and precipitate a full relapse
  • Lapse to relapse
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what is the relapse prevention method?

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  • Self-management program
43
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What do Clients do in the relapse prevention method?

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  • Identify high-risk situations
  • Acquire coping skills
  • Practice coping in high-risk situation with therapist supervision
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How do clients learn to identify high-risk situation in the relapse prevention method?

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  • Generating a list and description of antecedent conditions that lead to lapse
45
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What is social engineering?

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  • Changing social environment in order to better support healthy behaviours
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What are examples of social engineering?

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  • Nutritional guidlines
  • Seatbelt laws, road safety
  • School vaccination programs
  • Smoking prohibition
  • Taxation of alcohol to increase cost
  • Restricting Alcohol to adults
  • Taxes on sugary drinks
  • Eliminating Trans Fats in Foods
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Does evidence suggest that decriminalization increases the risk of drug use?

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  • NO
48
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What does a harm reduction approach to substance abuse entail?

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  • Reduce negative consequences of substance use
  • Treat people who use drugs with respect and dignity
49
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What is the purpose of harm reduction approach to substance abuse?

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  • Reduce/remove social stigma
  • Motivate to stay healthy/contributing members of society
50
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What benefits were seen after the insite supervised drug consumption site in 2003, downtown east side vancouver?

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  • Reduction in public injecting/syringe sharing
  • INcrease detox service/addiction treatment
  • Drop in overdose deaths/HIV infections
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Describe Addiction

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  • Condition, produced by repeated consumption of natural/synthetic psychoactive substance
  • Physically/psychologically dependent on substance
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When does physical dependence exist?

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  • When body adjusts to substance and incorporates into normal functioning
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When is psychological dependence a thing?

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  • individual compelled to use a substance for the effect it produces, without necessarily being physically dependent on it
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What are some substance-related/addictive disorders?

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  • Alcohol
  • Caffeine
  • Cannabis
  • Phencyclidine
  • Hallucinogens
  • Inhalants
  • Opioids
  • Sedatives
  • Hypnotics
  • Anxiolytics
  • Stimulants
  • Tobacco
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What are the two types of addiction disorders in the DSM-5-TR?

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  • Substance-related
  • Gambling disorder
56
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What are the short-term effects of alcohol?

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  • Reduced coordination
  • Diminished cognitive ability
  • Judgement, decision making
  • Aggression / Emotionality
  • Accidents
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Explain long-term effects of alcohol

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  • Liver damage
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Various types of cancer
  • Depression
  • Alcohol Use Disorder
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What is problem drinking?

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  • heavy or frequent drinking
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What can problem drinking involve?

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  • binge drinking (more than 5/one occasion every 30 days)
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How many people who abuse alcohol are addicted?

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50%

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Explain alcohol use disorder

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  • problematic pattern of alcohol use leading to clinicallly significant impairement or distress
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what must manifest within 12-month period for alcohol use disorder?

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At least 2 of:
- Alcohol in large amount/long time
- Persistent desire to cut down
- Time spent in activities trying to obtain or use alcohol
- Craving/strong urge for alcohol
- Interfering with work, school, home
- Continue despite social problems
- Giving up social/work activities
- Recurrent use in physically hazardous situations
- Continue despite knowing better
- Tolerance
- Withdrawal

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Explain Tolerance

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  • Diminished effect over time
  • Need for greater amounts to achieve same effect
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Explain the severe symptoms of withdrawal

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  • Nausea
  • Sweating
  • Tremors
  • Insomnia
  • Hallucinations
  • Anxiety
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What outperforms traditional counselling in alcohol intervention?

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  • Motivational interviewing
66
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what happens with a less severe drinking problem?

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  • Better chance of succeeding controlled drinking
67
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Who has the best prospects for controlled drinking of those among problem drinking?

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  • Young
  • Socially stable
  • short history alcohol abuse
  • Not experienced severe withdrawal
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Who should not try to pursue a goal of controlled drinking?

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  • Long-term alcoholics
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What situations might be high risk for relapse?

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  • Intrapersonal High-Risk Situations
  • Interpersonal High-Risk Situations
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Expand on Intrapersonal High-risk situations

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  • Negative emotional stress
  • Positive emotional states
  • Exposure to alcohol-related stimuli or cues
  • Non-specific cravings
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Expand on INterpersonal High-risk situations

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  • Interpersonal conflict
  • Social pressure, direct/indirect
  • Exposure to setting/situation that are cues
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Are there differences between abstainers and moderate drinkers in Coronary heart disease?

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  • NO
73
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What is the systems approach to obesity?

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  • Product of environmental/lifestyle factors (NOT biological)
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Is obesity heritable?

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  • Yes
75
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What happens in most cases of genetic predisposition of obesity?

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  • Risk increased 20-30%
76
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Explain the Health Halo Effect

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  • Judge entire food as healthy based on one/more narrow attributes (percieved as healthy)
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When is food considered healthy?

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  • Labeled “low-calorie”; “organic”; “all-natural”
  • From restaurant
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When were individuals more likely to make indulgent food choices?

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  • When healthy items were available
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What community-level factors are associated with higher risk of obesity?

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  • Lower socioeconomic status
  • Lower % college/uni graduates
  • Fewer grocery stores/farmer markets
  • Low satisfaciton/safety with public transprotation
  • Reduced accessiblity to sport facilities
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What behaviours are implicated in obesity across the lifespan?

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  • Unhealthy diet
  • Physical inactivity
  • Poor sleep
  • Screen Time
  • Stress (cortisol)
  • Interpersonal Factors
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What can improve success of dieting and healthy eating?

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  • Self-efficacy, confidence, social support
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What do compensatory beliefs do for diet adherence?

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  • Compromise weight loss success
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What does food-related guilt correlate with?

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  • Lower perceived control over eating
  • Less successful weight maintenance
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Why can artificial sweeteners lead increased sugar consuption?

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  • Expectant energy boost
  • Craving result of absence
85
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What diets are problematic?

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  • Crash diets unhealthy
  • Low-carb diet (death/depression)
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What is the best diet?

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  • Sustainable, balanced diets that provide optimal amounts of all essential nutrients for metabolic needs
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What is more predictable of poor health and obesity: Processed sugar or dietary fat?

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  • Processed Sugar
88
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What exhibits symptoms of gluten sensitivity?

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  • Fructans (not gluten)
89
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Explain Healthy at Every Size Approach

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  • size-acceptance, end weight discrimination, reduce cultural obsession with weight loss/thinness
90
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What does weight stigma factor into?

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  • Weight Gain
  • Poor Health
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What does stigma predict?

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  • Mortality
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What mechanisms cause stigma to factor in both weight gain and poor health?

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  • Increase stress
  • Poor coping
  • Poorer treatmetn
  • Inadequate care
  • Internalization interfere with weight management
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What is the most common reason for not exercising?

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  • Time
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What, other than time, causes people not to exercise?

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  • No convenient place
  • Weather Conditions
  • Stress/Depression
  • Social Influences
  • Unpleasant aspects of exercise
  • Underestimate the enjoyment
  • Low self-efficacy, belief in success
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What are the risks of sedentary lifestyle?

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  • premature death
  • depression
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What is the recommended amount of exercise?

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  • 2 1/2 hours / week
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How does low SES minority status lead to increased morbitidy and mortality?

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  • Poor health behaviours
  • poorer knowledge of risk factors
  • poor environments
  • Barriers to access health services