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Health behaviours have being defined
by Matarazzo (1984) in terms of either:
Health impairing habits, which he called
"behavioural pathogens" (for example
smoking, eating a high fat diet), or
Health protective behaviours, which he
defined as "behavioural immunogens" (e.g.
attending a health checkups).
(Taylor, 1999)
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Health behavior change is a complex set of
mechanisms and processes comprising of knowledge
and beliefs, self-regulation skills and abilities and
social facilitation.
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BELIEFS ATTITUDES BEHAVIOR
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(Stuart, 2009; Taylor, 1999)9
BIOLOGICAL FACTORS
• Genetics
SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS
• Peer pressure
• Social learning
• Impact of mass media
• Low socio-economic status
Modeling
Educational/Knowledge
Appeals
Fear Appeals
Cognitive Approaches
Readiness to change
Model/TTM
Persuasion
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Conditioning and Modeling make up one
of the earliest principles of behavior
change, identified by various
researches.
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“Contingency Contracting’ is
an example of behavioral
change working on Skinner’s
principle of Operant
conditioning.
(Stuart, 2009)
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Educational appeals make the assumption
that people will change their health
habits if they have correct information.
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Examine your current health habits by
conducting a self-assessment. Then analyze
and evaluate your life style.
Identify and choose a target behavior from the
several identified unhealthy behaviors. Start with
simple then move to more difficult behaviors
Obtaining information about your target behavior.
Including current and future benefits and risks of
your target behavior.
PREPARATION:
MAINTENANCE
CONTEMPLATION:
PRECONTEMPLATION
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“Persuasion is a health promotion strategy widely
used to influence individual health beliefs and
behavior. People are exposed to more or less complex
messages that reflect a position advocated by a
source and arguments designed to support that
position.”
(Stroebe, 2011)
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Research has demonstrated that excessively using persuasion can
render the client a passive recipient to expert knowledge combined
with advise giving can reduce client autonomy and generate
resistance.
Persuasion doesn't ensure health behavior change in a long run i.e. no
guarantee of maintenance of the change.
Many times, persuasive health campaigns do not cater the
discrepancy between individual and population perspectives of health
risk.
Persuasive technologies may violate ethical grounds due to
manipulation with audience for reasons other than promoting health
change.
Persuasion is found to be ineffective in reaching individuals of lower
socioeconomic status.
Using
Increasing Interpersonal
Talk about skills like
Listen Reflect
change Empathizing
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Health Promotion Means Changing Behavior at
Multiple Levels. These are:
Individual: knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, personality.
Example: Readiness to change Model, cognitive
restructuring.
Interpersonal: family, friends, peers. Example: Self-
Help Program, behavior contract etc.
Community: social networks, standards, norms.
Example: Applying persuasion in Mass Media
Campaigns
Public Policy: local policies related to healthy
practices. Example: Health promotion Programs like
OBSI, EPI, NACP etc.
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Health communication and mobilization are two core concepts in
Health promotion theories.
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TAKE HOME MESSAGE
I promise to work on these behaviors:
I will avoid high fat diet
I will have 8 hours sleep at night
I will avoid procrastination
Reward for meeting these expectations:
(list down your own rewards)
Consequences for not meeting these expectation:
(list down your own consequences)
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