Health Behavior Change Project

In this report it will investigate at least three recent health education campaigns and use them to explain two models of behaviour change. The three recent health education campaigns will be ‘Smoke Free’, ‘Change4Life’ and ‘FRANK’. The two models of behaviour change will be the theory of reasoned action and the stages of change model.

Explain two models of behaviour change that have been used in recent national health education campaigns.

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Comparing the data of last week and this week. How to compare is the distance and time I can do a mile and the number of sets I can accomplish. Other activities that will occur this week are four practices for Marching Band, competing at Sierra Vista Field, and volunteering at the hospital. Continuing to be hydrated by drinking eight cups of water per day and avoiding fast food. If that is unavoidable, we have to compensate by working out longer or a rigorous work out is needed to burn the

The health behaviour change that I will focus on will be to decrease the consumption of unhealthy foods.

Mariam is a 19-year-old who study medicine, she is single and lives with her family. Her main complain, was not drinking enough water. She drinks around 3 cups of water instead of drinking 8 cups, which is the standard number of cups. She failed to change this behavior for many time because of her weak Memory and full schedule. However, I found that she perceives the susceptibility and severity of the behavior by being aware that this behavior is a problem, affect her health, and can lead to

My health goal was to change my eating habits. I chose this goal because I have a bad habit of not eating as well as I should. Although I usually do not eat fast food, I eat a lot of carbs. I was raised in an Italian family so macaroni and pizza are my two worst enemies. I figured that if I used this project to get rid of my bad eating habits, I would have an easier time eating healthy after this class ends. Before starting the project I realized that there will be challenges, but this project was not meant to be simple. If behavior change was simple, then anyone would be able to change behavior whenever they wanted to.

The intervention was successful at increasing the participant’s consumption of water and enabled her to meet her initial goal of thirty-two ounces of water over the course of 5 sessions; however it is unknown how much of the success is due to awareness of monitoring or if the results will be maintained. One modification was made during the intervention due to the realization that coffee needed to be farther away from the participant. Initially it was not part of the intervention to remove it; however it was found that unless it was out of reach the participant would automatically grab the coffee even if the water was right next to it. After moving the coffee to the kitchen, it was no longer an issue. The initial intention was to complete an ABAB pattern intervention to display control but a

Thanks for the response. You make a lot of great points about change being hard for people. The transtheoretical model of health behavior change is a great example of how people move through behavior change. People move through five stages of when dealing with change. These include precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, adn maintance (Melnyk & Fineover-Overhalt, 2014). Individuals can move through the stages in order and they can also move backwards. I was at a conference a couple of years ago where they were talking about how people move through change and how to help people be successful in dealing with change. Change is very difficult to deal with. I found it interesting that people always say that it takes 21 days

My first goal was to drink at least eight glasses of water a day. This was the goal I think I did pretty well on. My strategy to achieve this goal was to drink two glasses in the morning, drink at least a water bottle during school that was at least 24 oz. and drink four to five glasses after school and through-out the day. After doing this for a while I noticed I felt a lot better. I had a lot more energy, normally after school I am just too tired and I’ll end up sleeping but I didn’t do this nearly as much.

Through my behavior change project I have learned many things about myself and life in general. My personal goal was to read two encouraging bible verses every morning. Working towards a goal is not always the easiest thing to do and I have now learned that because I have tried it myself. Although, I did complete my goal it was still hard to work up the motivation to make the effort. I believe through this project some of my views have changed on problem solving and I know that this will help me in the future.

The target of my invention was to regulate my diet and increase my exercise. The behavior I was trying to change is to stop being inactive and instead being more active and eating healthier. The outcome I was expecting from this intervention is to decrease in weight and increase in energy and become more active. For diet, the target of my invention was to decrease the amount of carbohydrates (e.g. bread, pasta, rice) I consume and increase my consumption of healthy fat and protein such as fish, meat, eggs, peanuts etc. I also wanted to increase the amount of vegetables I consumed such as salad, broccoli, tomatoes, etc. For exercise, the target of my interventions was to increase the amount of exercise I do per day (with the exception of Sundays) with at least 20 minutes of walking. My main goal overall is to increase my energy, lose weight, and maintain a healthy lifestyle. The benefits this will make to my lifestyle is it will help me have more willpower and reduce the chances of me obtaining severe illness in the future.

For seven days, we both recorded how many calories we ate for every meal of the day, as well as how many carbohydrates, proteins, sugars, fats, and sodium amounts we had. We decided to analyze how many calories we had each day because the calories were quantities with high numbers, and there was a lot of variance throughout the days. This would provide data for an interesting graph. We also decided to analyze your percentage of sugar intake daily in relation to your weekly total intake. We thought this would be interesting to show because it not only compared your daily intake, but also showed how each day was different for both people. To add to that, analyzing the sugar intake showed that since our diets leaned on different kinds of food groups, we both

During my 24-hour recall, I realized some new things about my diet. I was able to analyze and inspect my diet to examine what I was eating, what types of nutrients I was getting. This diet that I recorded for this project very closely resembles what i eat on an everyday basis. I found some very interesting facts that pertained to my diet that were good and then some that needed work and to be altered. I consumed a little more than two cups that is recommended for the fruit group, two and a half cups of vegetables, a little more than three ounces of grains, as well as five ounces of protein. What I noticed was that I consumed the right amount, if not more, for most of the food groups; but I barely have any dairy in my diet. The only time I ate any dairy was when I had a bowl of cereal for breakfast and the cheese that was on my burger. According to choosemyplate.gov, I should be consuming three cups of dairy and I barely have one cup

The first goal in my practice plan, for the physical aspect, is to start drinking more water. This has always been a challenge for me, because I find water to be boring and lacking taste. However, I know that hydrating your body is important for many different reasons. It not only flushes out toxins in your body, but also keeps your skin clear, and helps with weight loss, among many other things. One way that I will work to meet this goal, is to buy water bottles in bulk. By doing this, I will have the ability to grab and go a bottle to take with me when I am heading to work or to have in the car instead of stopping someplace to buy a soft drink. Another way that I will reach this goal, is to buy some drink mixes to put in the water in order to make it taste better to me since the lack of taste has been an