PA interventions

Question 1

Four intervention approaches to target PA behaviour

Answer 1

informational
- Knowledge about PA

behavioural
- Skills for change

social
- influences in ones life to facilitate PA, peers, family

environmental
- environmental and policies support PA? green spaces, side walks, gyms?

Question 2

COM - B

Answer 2

Question 3

Informational approaches
info that influences PA

Mass media campaigns

Community-wide campaigns

Point of decision prompts

Answer 3

provide info about PA benefits, and overcoming negative attitudes

self-efficacy, perceived behavioural control, attitude

Mass media campaigns
* Reach large numbers of people at less cost than face-to-face services
* Vary from simple motivational messages to more extensive educational campaigns. not one own health professional
* Effectiveness:
70% of people surveyed recalled messages
* Limitations:
Cost, people may ignore, negative perception

Community-Wide Campaigns
* Take mass media and “tailor” it to reach a targeted audience. Cancer survivors, old, fat
* Same principles apply
* Effectiveness:
* Better, because of tailoring
Limitations:
relevant only to specific people, less impactful, must be tailored correctly

Point-of-Decision Prompts
* Involves placing signs at points where people must choose between two activities. USE STAIRS
* Signs usually convey messages about benefits of PA
* Remind people they are about to have an opportunity to engage in PA
* Effectiveness:
* YES – for simple behaviours, like using stairs
* Limitations:
only effective for as long as the signs are posted

Question 4

Behavioural Approaches
Objectives:
*

Skills involve the following:

**Effectiveness:
probably the most…
* Produce x% increase in PA
genders?

Limitations:

Answer 4

Objectives:
* Teach people behavioural skills to help them initiate and maintain a PA program

Skills involve the following:
* Recognize cues and opportunities for PA
* Recognize and manage situations that can sabotage PA
* strategies to prevent relapse

**Effectiveness:
* Probably most effective intervention for increasing PA.
* Produce 35 % increase in PA
* Effective among both men and women and when conducted in a variety of settings

Limitations:
* Cost
* requires expertise to deliver
*

Question 4

Tips for Developing Effective Informational Interventions
* Target PA information to specific populations

Messages should:
* Emphasize specific…
* How to minimize…
- Create….
- enhance beliefs…
- How to…

Answer 4

Tips for Developing Effective Informational Interventions
* Target PA information to specific populations

• Messages should:
• Emphasize specific positive consequences of PA
• How to minimize negative personal consequences of PA
• create social pressure
• enhance beliefs about PA
• How to info

Question 5

Action plan
ways to cue yourself

Relapse prevention
coping skills

Answer 5

help to implement goals
keep an activity log, pride in getting to certain points

putting on exercise clothes
gym pass on keys
tracking what you have done

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positive or negative coping skills
decreased self efficacy or increasing

I’m bad at this, I haven’t exercised for 2 weeks, and I’m not an exerciser

increased probability of a relapse