Health Sciences 2250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Health Promotion, Classical Conditioning, Relapse Prevention
22 Sep 2020
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Identifying why people behave as they do and why they are not behaving in healthy ways. Identifying information needed before developing an intervention: providing a conceptual framework for selecting constructs to develop the intervention, providing direction and justification for program activities, providing insights into how best to deliver the intervention. Individual characteristics that influence behaviour, such as knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and personality traits. Interpersonal processes and primary groups, including family, friends, and peers that provide social identity, support, and role definition. Institutional or organizational factors: rules, regulations, policies, and informal structures, community factors, social networks or norms, public policy factors, more recently, 2 additional levels have been added: the physical environment and culture. Intrapersonal level theories: the intrapersonal or individual level is the most basic one in hp practice, so planners must be able to explain and influence the behaviour of individuals.
