Self-Directed Health Behavior Change

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.

In everyday life many people develop habits, but it is never too late to attempt to change that bad habit to live a healthier life. For this behavioral change project, I was asked to choose a health behavior that I would like to change for the better. So, I decided that I wanted to increase the amount of water I was consuming each day. The standard recommendation on how much water an individual should consume is about 64 ounces daily. However how much a person should drink is more individualized then one might assume. Therefore, for this particular project my goal was to at least consume 64 ounces of water daily as a baseline starting point. I also had to consider days when I worked out. So, I decided that I would attempt to increase that amount

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

Bill is a man that has dementia and lives with his niece Jane. He oftens asked the same questions regularly this annoys Jane because she thinks he is doing this on badness, so she shouts into his face this scares and she also pushes him onto his bed, this causes bruising to Bill. This abuse is both physical and psychological abuse. Physical abuse is abuse that hurts the person the body and psychological abuse is harming the person’s mental state. With some forms of abuse in the UK physical and psychological abuse are both at 0.4%. 37% of abusers are family members, the category that Jane is fitted in. While in the Republic of Ireland 1.2% psychological and 0.5% physical of people 65+ were abused.

Also, I plan on telling my brother and mother about this plan and they’ll help guide me toward the right direction when I fall off course. I think letting my family know about my plan as soon as possible will help me out most, like today, which is July 13th. My reward will be much more sleep which will make me happier.

The service will be provided in accredited pharmacies and the pharmacy will be willing to train staff adequately. Training will include;

This behavior change project has become a huge part of my everyday life. I lost sight of how important staying in shape affects my overall mental state along with my physical well-being. Having a life that consists of so many activities such as going to school, working, and maintaining a full and happy relationship with the people I care about is hard to balance with just making time for myself. That is why keeping this three day a week workout regime over the past five weeks has been so important; it made me realize that I can make time to focus on just working on myself, and in turn, improve all other aspects of my life. Realizing of course that there are many people in this world that have real life health problems that they seek professional help for. These changes in their lives require a system or a theory that must be applied to develop a strategic an organized way to regulate or change their behavior.

In order to identify the differences between the terms as an addiction counselor, medical, literary definition of the three are; lapse, defined by the writers of our textbook is, “the initial return to using after a period of sobriety” (p. 262), whereas a relapse is defined as, “a breakdown or setback in a person’s attempt to change or modify a target behavior” (p. 262). In other words, a lapse is generally a one-time use of alcohol or drugs by an addict or alcoholic while a relapse would be back to out of control use like they had experienced before. Recurrence is similar to a relapse. As defined by Dictionary. Com, a recurrence is a, “return to a previous condition, habit, subject, etc.”( (Stevens & Smith, 2013).

Relapse is defined a person who returns to a certain behavior that he/she had stopped doing that for a certain period. Commonly, these behaviors include to use the alcohol, cigarette and substance abuse. Patients with anxiety and shame have higher chance to get into remission condition because they tend to use these substances to relieve their pain, shame and anxiety.

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

Relapse is a “fall, or slip, back into a former state or practice.” In terms of drug treatment, relapse is returning to the use of addicted substances following a period of abstinence.

The change models are change agents that could explain the ways of implementing a change process. These models explain the reason for the change, what to expect during the process and the way a change occurs. Thus, these models help one understand the various aspects of the change process (Agriculture & Life Sciences: Texas A & M University, n.d.). The transtheoretical model of health behavior change could explain my evidence-based practice (EBP) project implementation plan.

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

On individual level changes in health promotion and ecological approaches target and influence multiple health behaviors. This is because the individuals living in the environment are embedded in temporary change of behaviors. Therefore it is very important to consider ecological approaches, changing health behaviors and environmental factors while designing operational and supportable health promotion plans.

This report explores the fundamental role of Health Promotion to the health sector and individuals in relation to their biological, psychological and sociological aspects. To discuss its practical role in the society, a health promotion model is related to a family that lives in socially deprived district as determined by Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (2014). In accordance to confidentiality and anonymity code of Nursing and Midwifery Council - NMC (2015) the family members named in this report are fictitious; the district is named as Locality-A; and the facilities named are not available within the public domain.