Health Behaviour Change
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Status: v102 Time: 2025-03-15 Tags: lecturenotes Links:
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Objectives: understand what health behaviour is understand why people exhibit different health behaviours understand how doctors play a role in changing peoples health behaviours become familiar with the stages of change models
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understand what health behaviour is
what is health? it is an overall state of wellbeing
5 examples of healthy lifestyle practices helathy bmi dont smoke moderate to vigorous exercise healthy diet moderate alcohol consumption
understand why people exhibit different health behaviors
information can change behaviours but not always
barrier to change info internal barriers lack of knowledge unhelpful beliefs
- eg i cant change lack of motivation fear of change triggering situations
external barriers lack of support societal/ cultural expections geographical location (eg number of fast food stores) accessibility/ lack of resources
habit loop trigger (cue)
action (craving)
benefit (reward)
habit barriers enjoyment of reward from competeing poor health behaviours no immediate adverse effect of poor habit amount of effort in changing habits triggering environment/social groups
break the triggers break the rewards give different rewards
understand how doctors play a role in changing peoples health behaviours
doctors provide information that can help change health behaviour
doctors, through using motivational interviewing can start to break triggers unhelpful perceptions and rewards surrounding negative habits
become familiar with the stages of change models
pre-contemplation “Im not thinking about quitting” contemplation “im thinking about quitting” preparation “im getting ready quit” action “Im quitting” maintenence “ive quit and am not doing actions and am maintaining discipline and motivation” relapse (or lapse) “im doing/ have done actions”