10012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Urban Planning, Relapse Prevention

• School: University of Canberra
• Department: University of Canberra
• Course: 10012
• Professor: Richard Keegan

Document Summary

Lecture 11 - community level interventions to promote physical activity. Informal approaches: objectives, provide info about physical activity benefits. Increase awareness of opportunities: explain techniques to overcome pa barriers, provide strategies to overcome negative attitudes. Community-wide campaigns: examples, health risk appraisals, fitness appraisals, physician counseling, community health & wellness fairs. To be effective: emphasize specific physical activity consequences, describe how to minimize negative consequences, create social pressure to exercise, enhance self-efficacy/perceived control, pro(cid:448)ide si(cid:373)ple, detailed (cid:862)ho(cid:449) to(cid:863) i(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374). Behavioural approaches: objective is to teach people behavioural skills to help initiate and maintain an exercise regimen, recognize cues and opportunities for physical activity, develop strategies to maintain pa levels, develop strategies to prevent relapse. Learn to recognize and manage situations that can sabotage pa plans. Implementation intentions: development of strong mental associations between a situational cue and a specific behavior. Self-monitoring: make people aware of their behaviour, awareness can modify behaviour.