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Examples of predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors

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  • 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
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Difference between goals and objectives

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  • goals: a broad statement of direction or intent

- objectives: clear and precise statements about the steps, if completed, that will lead to the goals

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The elements of an object

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– 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

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Describe the health belief model

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  • 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

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Transtheoretical model

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  • 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
6
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Types of intervention strategies

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– communication

– education

– policy

– other