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Applied Health Behavior Change

Lecture 7

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Overview

Understand terms: health status, goal, category of behaviors, health behavior, and determinants

Understand the relationship between health behaviors, health determinants, and interventions.

+ types of behavior change interventions & theories

+ re: assignment #1 option #2

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Behavior

Behavior must be an action that people can observe

Four elements (Fishbein, 2008)

Action

Target

Context

Time

Changes in any one of these elements changes the behavior, changes the underlying factors, and changes effective interventions

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Health Behavior

Health behaviors (e.g., 30min of daily running)

Behaviors that are empirically, directly connected to the health status

Different from a health status (e.g., normal weight)

Different from goals & objectives (e.g., lose weight & burn calories)

Different from a category of behavior (e.g., physical activity)

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Health Behavior & Determinants

Health determinants (e.g., access to exercise facility)

“determinants” or “behavioral determinants”

factor that is assumed to influence, cause, or contribute to some outcome

We target determinants to induce change in behavior (NOT target behaviors directly)

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Health Behavior & Determinants

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Health status

Behavior

Proximal determinants

Distal determinants

Theoretical Principles of Prediction

Theoretical Principles of Change

Intervention & Program

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Practice…

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Behavior

Proximal determinants

Distal determinants

Intervention & Program

Pick a behavior

Identify determinant(s) that affects the behavior

Think of ways to alter those determinants

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Behavior Change Interventions

Educational Programs

Regulatory Initiatives

Advocacy Interventions

Environmental Change

Health Status and Monitoring

Communication and Media Programs

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Behavior Change Interventions

Educational Programs

Designed to increase knowledge or skills, and change attitudes.

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workshops

lectures

trainings

brochures

videos

drama

Behavior Change Interventions

Regulatory Initiatives

Laws, ordinances, regulations designed to influence health behaviors.

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Behavior Change Interventions

Advocacy Interventions

Focused on creating social change.

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Behavior Change Interventions

Environmental Change

Activities designed to alter or control the legal, Social, economic, or physical environment (Cheadle et al., 1992)

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Behavior Change Interventions

Health Status and Monitoring

Designed to facilitate an individual’s ability to assess their health status, health behaviors, and create an individual plan for changing behavior and improving health.

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Behavior Change Interventions

Communication and Media Programs

Can be stand alone intervention

Can be component of larger program

Public Service Announcements (PSAs) are often educational media programs

Example 1

Example 2

Other examples

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Theories/Models: Examples

Traditionally, behavior change interventions & theories focused on determinants like knowledge, attitude, and belief

Example of theories/models of behavior change

Health Belief Model (“HBM”)

Social Cognitive Model (“SCM”)

Transtheoretical Model (“TTM”)

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Theories/Models: Examples

Health Belief Model

Belief must be supported before change occurs

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Theories/Models: Examples

Social Cognitive Model

Proposes that three factors (social environment, thoughts/cognition, and individuals’ behavior) interact in a reciprocal fashion to promote and motivate change.

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Theories/Models: Examples

No intention to change

Think need for change

Close to taking action; may have a plan

Follow action plan

Continue + make permanent

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Transtheoretical Model

Series of stages required until eventual change

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Take-Away Points

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Health status

Behavior

Proximal determinants

Distal determinants

Theoretical Principles of Prediction

Theoretical Principles of Change

Intervention & Program

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Announcement

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Assignment #1 grades posted on Canvas

Come to office hours for grade discussions

Discussion of assignment #1, option #2

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Additional Resource (re: assignment #1)

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Common citation formats

APA guideline

AMA guidelines

Finding academic articles

Common database (MEDLINE, ERIC, Web of Science, etc.)

MU library composite search engine

Google Scholar

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Additional Resource (re: assignment #1)

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What makes one study better than another?

Author’s credentials & experience

Date of publication

Study design (sample size, follow-up length, statistical methods & causality)

Potential conflict of interest

Journal index status? Impact factor?

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