Flashcards in Health psychology, behaviour change and smoking cessation Deck (48):
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What are the 3 main categories of health behaviours?
Behaviours related to health:
- Health behaviour
- Illness behaviour
- Sick role behaviour
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What is health psychology?
Role of psychological factors in the cause, progression + consequences of health + illness
EXAM: Aims to (1) promote healthy behaviours + (2) prevent illness
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What are the aims of health psychology?
Promote healthy behaviours
Prevent illness
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What is health behaviour? Give an example
A behaviour aimed to PREVENT DISEASE (E.g. eating healthy)
Two categories: health damaging and health promoting behaviours
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What is illness behaviour? Give an example
A behaviour aimed to SEEK REMEDY (e.g. go to the doctor)
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What is sick role behaviour? Give an example
Any activity aimed at getting well (e.g. taking prescribed medications, resting)
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Give 4 examples of health damaging/impairing behaviours
- alcohol abuse
- substance abuse
- smoking
- risky sexual behaviour
- sun exposure
- driving without a seatbelt
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Give some examples of health promoting behaviours
- exercise
- eating healthy
- attending health checks
- medication compliance
- vaccinations
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What 2 types of intervention can be done to improve health? Explain them. Give two examples
(EXAM Q)
Population level (health promotion) - via PHE --> process of enabling people to exert control over the determinants of health, thereby improving health. e.g. change 4 life
Individual level (patient centred approach) - care that is responsive to the patient's need. e.g. smoking cessation clinics
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Give some examples of health promotion campaigns
Change 4 Life + "5 a day"
Stoptober
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Exam Q: Explain the difference between public health interventions delivered at the population (ecological) and individual levels, using one example for each to illustrate your answer.
Health interventions delivered at a population level are aimed at health promotion. It involves enabling people to exert control over the determinants of health, thereby improving health. It is done by public health england. E.g. Change 4 life campaign (or Stoptober)
Individual level interventions is based upon a pt centred approach. it is care responsive to individual needs. E.g., smoking cessation clinics?
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Give an example of how an primary care intervention aimed at reducing alcohol consumption can impact individual, community and population levels (EXAM)
Individual level: reduced domestic violence, reduced alcohol consumption, improved individual health outcomes
local level: reduced local alcohol sales, reduced alcohol related a/e visits
population level: reduced crime, reduced demographic patterns of liver cirrhosis, reduced national alcohol sales
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Why might knowledge of risk factors (e.g. smoking causing lung cancer) not influence a patients behaviours?
Unrealistic optimism - inaccurate perceptions of risk and perceptbility --> 4 reasons influencing perceptions of risk:
1. Lack of personal experience with problem
2. belief that preventable by personal action
3. belief that if not happened by now, its not likely to
4. belief that problem is infrequent
other reasons: health beliefs, situational rationality, culture variability, stress, age, socioeconomic factors
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What influences a person's perception of risk?
1. Lack of personal experience with problem
2. belief that preventable by personal action
3. belief that if not happened by now, its not likely to
4. belief that problem is infrequent
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What are the NICE guidance on behaviour change?
• Work with your patient’s priorities
• Aim for easy changes over time
• Set and record goals
• Plan explicit coping strategies
• Review progress regularly (this really matters)
• Remember the public health impact of lots of you making small differences to individuals
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What factors influence compliance to medication?
- SEs (How to get around this? Education – explaining the complications of the disease)
- Misinformed (e.g. SSRIs are addictive, MMR causes autism) due to headlines
- Cognitive functioning / mental capacity of the patient to help: use of assistive devices (e.g. day
- If patient is asymptomatic (e.g. for primary prevention) – they think they don’t need to take it
- Socioeconomic position – people from disadvantaged backgrounds likely to not take medication (maybe cost of prescription?)
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give some examples of health promotion interventions?
Screening, vaccination, change4life, 5-a-day
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Exam Q (will come up): how a intervention impacts on an individual level, local level, and population level
Individual: improved individual health outcomes (e.g. reduced rates of lung cancer)
Local: reduced local rates?, reduced littering (E.g. smoking)
Population level: improved demographic health patterns (E.g. lung cancer)
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Exam q (Will come up): what is the best theory to explain why people engage in health impairing behaviours?
Unrealistic optimism: individuals continue to practice health damaging behaviour due to INACCURATE PERCEPTIONS OF RISK and SUSCEPTIBILITY
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EXAM Q: what is a meta-analysis?
Pooling of the data of the best possible evidence to give a forest plot to see the effect of something
can be done in a systematic review
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Exam Q (will come up): There are 3 main behaviours related to health. Specify the 3 types of health related behaviours and provide an example of each (6 marks)
- Health behaviour: a behaviour aimed to prevent disease (e.g. eating healthily)
- Illness behaviour: a behaviour aimed to seek remedy (e.g. going to the dr)
- Sick role behaviour: an activity aimed at getting well (e.g. taking prescribed medications, resting
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Exam Q (will come up): Theory of planned behaviour suggests that behaviours are governed by our intentions to carry out target behaviours. Specify the 3 factors that influence our intentions and give an example of each in relation to smoking cessation (6 marks)
- Attitudes: e.g. I don’t think smoking is a good thing
- Subjective norm: e.g. most people who are important to me want me to give up smoking
- Perceived behaviour control: e.g. I believe I have the ability to give up smoking
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Exam Q (will come up): The transtheoretical model, or stages of change model, specifies 5 sequential stages that an individual will pass through in order for behaviour change to occur. What are these stages?
- Pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance
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Exam Q (will come up): Considering the NICE guidelines on behaviour change – interventions to change health related behaviours should work in partnership with individuals, communities, organizations and populations. Identify 3 typical transition points whereby interventions are likely to be more effective (3 marks)
- Leaving school
- Entering the workforce
- Becoming a parent
- Becoming unemployed
- Retirement + bereavement
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Give 7 models/theories of behaviour change
1. Health belief model
2. Theory of planned behaviour
3. Stages of behaviour change
4. Social norms theory
5. Motivational interviewing
6. Nudging
7. Financial incentives
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Exam Q: what are the 4 components to the health belief model
Individuals will change if:
♣ They believe they are SUSCEPTIBLE to the condition
♣ Believe there are SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES if they get the condition
♣ Believe that TAKING ACTION reduces susceptibility
♣ Believe that the benefits of taking action OUTWEIGH the costs (perceived barriers) most important
(perceived susceptibility, perceives severity, perceived barriers)
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What 2 variables influence the beliefs (in the health belief model)? Give examples
Demographic: age, SES, ethnicity, gender
psychological: personality, peer pressure
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What are "cues to action" in the health belief model? What are the two types of cues?
o Included in the model – KICK-STARTS THE ACTION TO CHANGE
o Internal cues: e.g. getting out of breath (smoker)
o External cues: e.g. GP advise
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give some disadvantages of the health belief model?
o Alternative factors may predict health behaviour: e.g. OUTCOME EXPECTANCY (whether the person feels they will be healthier as a result of their behaviour) + SELF-EFFICACY (the person’s belief in their ability to carry out a preventative behaviour)
o Cognitive based model doesn’t consider EMOTIONS on behaviour
o Doesn’t differentiate first time + repeat behaviour
o “cues to action” often missing in research
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What is outcome expectancy?
Whether the person feels they will be healthier as a result of their behaviour
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What is self-efficacy
The person’s belief in their ability to carry out a preventative behaviour
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What is the theory of planned behaviour?
Theory that the best predictor of behaviour is "intention"
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Exam Q: what influences intention (in theory of planned behaviour)?
- Attitudes: e.g. I don’t think smoking is a good thing
- Subjective norm: e.g. most people who are important to me want me to quit
- Perceived behavioural control: e.g. I believe I have the ability to give up smoking
All 3 lead to the "intention": I intend to give up smoking
The intention leads to behaviour change
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Exam Q (will come up0: “scenario about a patient wanting to change + ready but doesn’t” What techniques can we use to bridge the intention-behaviour gap? Give examples
1. Perceived control
2. Anticipated regret
3. Preparatory actions: e.g. breaking things down into manageable sub-goals/tasks
4. Implementation intentions: e.g. formulating an if-and-then plan
5. Relevance to self
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Give some disadvantages of the model: theory of planned behaviour?
o Lacks temporal element (+ lack of direction or causality)
o doesn’t account for emotions (E.g. fear) - may disrupt rational decision making
o Doesn’t explain how attitudes, subjective norm and PBC, interact (3 separate factors)
o Habits + routines bypass cognitive deliberation
o Assumes that attitudes, subjective norm + PBC can be measured
o Relies on self-reported behaviour
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What is the transtheoretical model? Give the 5 stages
Stages of change model
- Sees individuals located at discrete ordered stages examines process of change
- Pre-contemplation contemplation preparation action maintenance
- (relapse)
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Exam Q (will come up): give examples of each stage of the transtheoretical model for smoking cessation? (in exam may be asked to give examples for things other than quitting smoking)
o Pre-contemplation: no intention to give up smoking
o Contemplation: beginning to consider giving up smoking (probably in distant future)
o Preparation: getting ready to quit (near future)
o Action: engaged in giving up smoking now
Maintenance: steady non-smoker (state of change reached)
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What are some advantages of the transtheoretical model?
o Individual stages tailored interventions for each stage
o Accounts for relapse
o Temporal element
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What are some disadvantages of the transtheoretical model?
o Not all people move through every stage (E.g. some miss out stages)
o Change might operate on a continuum rather than in discrete stages
o Doesn’t account for habits, values, culture, social, economic factors
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Describe the social norms theory? Give an example
- Making people aware of what normal is
- Idea is that people have incorrect perceptions of other people’s behaviours (E.g. most people smoke) so the person adjusts their behaviour to the presumed majority
- Social norms aims to correct these misperceptions by exposing actual norms (making them aware of the real normal) will lead to a behaviour change
- E.g. trams in Sheffield “did you know there are more non-smokers than smokers in Sheffield”
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Give a disadvantage of the social norms theory?
Can’t be used if the norm is the behaviour you want to change (E.g. obesity)
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What is motivational interviewing and what is the nudge theory?
- Motivational interviewing (counselling approach)
- Nudge theory: making the best option the easiest. altering environment to elicit behaviour change (E.g. supermarket layouts)
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what other factors need to be considered in behaviour change?
- Impact of personality traits on behaviour
- Social environment
- Impact of habit/past behaviour
- Assessment of risk perception
- …etc
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What are the typical transition points according to NICE to elicit change?
Leaving school, entering workforce, becoming a parent, becoming unemployed, retirement + bereavement
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What are some reasons people engage in health impairing behaviours?
- Unrealistic optimism (MAIN ONE)
- health beliefs
- situational rationality
- Age
- stress
- culture
...
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Give an example of how an primary care intervention aimed at reducing smoking can impact individual, community and population levels (EXAM)
Individual level: reduced respiratory problems for the individual
Local: reduced littering from cig butts
Population: reduced rates of lung Ca
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What is unrealistic optimism?
Individuals continue to carry out health damaging behaviours due to inaccurate perceptions or risk + susceptibility
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