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What is the primary goal of motivational interviewing?
Which of the following techniques is included as a method to change behavior?
How does motivational interviewing differ from traditional confrontation methods?
What is a critical component when designing behavior change interventions based on determinants?
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What is meant by 'rolling with resistance' in motivational interviewing?
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What is the purpose of behavior change techniques in interventions?
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Which of the following strategies is not classified as a method used in theory-based behavior change interventions?
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What characteristic makes behavior change techniques distinct and effective?
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In the context of behavior change interventions, what is meant by 'active ingredients'?
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What is the primary goal of applying theoretical determinants to behavior change methods?
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What is the significance of theory in behavior change interventions?
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What are behavior change techniques defined as?
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Why are theory-based campaigns considered more effective than atheoretical campaigns in promoting health-protective behavior?
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What role do personal and social factors play in behavior change according to the explanatory systems?
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What is the significance of posing questions or hypotheses in behavior change interventions?
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What is the primary goal of motivational interviewing?
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Which of the following strategies is most emphasized in motivational interviewing?
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When conducting motivational interviewing, what does the interview address in relation to the individual's current behavior?
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According to the Theory of Planned Behavior, what aspect should interventions primarily focus on for effective attitude change?
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What are salient behavioral beliefs in the context of promoting physical activity among adolescents?
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What is a key limitation of knowledge translation in changing people's behavior?
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Which element is most crucial for enhancing self-efficacy in behavior change initiatives?
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In the theory of planned behavior, what does targeting behavioral beliefs accomplish?
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What is the purpose of identifying the advantages and disadvantages of a target behavior in behavioral interventions?
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Which aspect is effectively addressed by normative messages in health behavior campaigns?
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What is an essential step in changing people's attitudes according to behavioral beliefs?
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Why might single mass media campaigns be considered ineffective?
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How can mass media campaigns maximize their effectiveness?
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What does the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) suggest about influencing people?
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Which of the following is NOT identified as a way to increase motivation in smokers to quit, according to NICE guidance?
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What is essential for individuals to engage in central processing of health messages?
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What factor can enhance the effectiveness of peripheral processing in communication campaigns?
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Which statement reflects a limitation of the elaboration likelihood model in behavior change?
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Which approach was suggested to increase motivation for quitting smoking?
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What role does self-efficacy play in behavior change interventions?
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What is considered a crucial aspect of effective mass media campaigns for behavior change?
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Which type of message framing tends to be more memorable according to the provided information?
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What must accompany fear-based messages for them to effectively drive behavior change?
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What factor is critical to consider for evaluating the effectiveness of mass media campaigns?
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What was the result of the coordinated British anti-smoking campaign after 18 months?
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Study Notes
Theory in Health Behaviour Change
- Theory is important for understanding the 'what' and 'how' of health behaviour change
- Theory guides intervention targets, posing questions/hypotheses which can be disconfirmed or rejected
- Theory-based campaigns are more effective than atheoretical campaigns in promoting health-protective behavior
- Intervention mapping is a six-step approach to link psychological variables with behaviour change methods
- Intervention mapping involves matching theoretical determinants of behaviour change with methods to change them
Behaviour Change Techniques/Methods
- A behavior change technique is an observable, replicable, and irreducible component of an intervention designed to alter or redirect causal processes that regulate behavior.
- Techniques are "tools" in the behavior change "toolbox"
- Techniques can be used independently or in conjunction with others
Common Behaviour Change Methods
- Giving information
- Increasing skills/self-efficacy
- Persuasion techniques
- Planning
- Social encouragement
- Goal setting
- Motivation improvement
- Self-monitoring of the behavior
Strategies for Behaviour Change
Motivational Interviewing
- Most effective when targeting reluctant people to engage in change
- Based on self-determination theory, emphasizing autonomy and choice
- Goal is to get people to consider changing, not provide a specific solution
- Resolves ambivalence by placing individuals in a state of cognitive dissonance, encouraging them to consider both sides of change
- The individual decides whether or not to change
- Focuses on increasing motivation to change, then considers the “how”
Motivational Interviewing Key Elements
- Empathy: Expressing understanding and non-judgmental listening
- Avoiding arguments: Acknowledging the individual's responsibility for change
- Rolling with resistance: Accepting the person's current position without judgment or challenge
- Highlighting disadvantages of the status quo: Examining the negative aspects of not changing
- Presenting advantages of change: Exploring the positive outcomes of changing
- Evoking the intention to change: Encouraging the individual to consider a commitment
- Supporting self-efficacy: Building belief in the individual's ability to change
- Evoking optimism for change: Expressing confidence in the individual's potential
Information Provision and Communication Persuasion
- Aims to influence outcome expectancies, personal relevance, positive attitudes, self-efficacy, and norms
- Examples include fact sheets, pamphlets, health campaigns
Attitude Change
- Interventions based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour should target underlying beliefs.
- Interventions should focus on salient behavioural beliefs.
- Surveys or interviews are used to elicit salient beliefs.
- Persuasive communications should target beliefs in a "case" or "rationale" for the behavior.
- The rationale should include evidence-based information about the benefits, risks, and social norms associated with the behavior.
- Example of an intervention script for increasing physical activity: Provide scientific evidence, highlight potential benefits, emphasize enjoyment and reduce risk.
Planning and Implementation Intentions
- Planning: Setting specific plans to make a behavior change easier and more likely to occur
- Implementation Intentions: Forming specific "if, then" statements that link the behavior change to a specific time or situation.
Confidence and Self-Efficacy Interventions
- Aim to increase an individual's belief in their ability to change their behavior
- Examples include:
- Modeling: Demonstrating the behavior and its successful outcome
- Behavioral Practice: Engaging in the target behavior under guided support
- Self-Efficacy Enhancement: Providing feedback and positive reinforcement
Problem-Solving Approaches
- Focus on identifying and overcoming barriers to behavior change
- Involves collaborative discussions to develop strategies to address specific challenges related to the behavior.
Goal Setting Interventions
- Setting specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals
- Provides clarity, direction, motivation, and a benchmark for progress.
Monitoring Interventions
- Encouraging individuals to track their progress and behavior
- Promotes self-awareness and self-regulation
Imagery and Mental Simulation Interventions
- Envisioning a successful outcome of the behavior change
- Mental rehearsal of desired behaviors strengthens motivation and increases confidence.
Environmental Interventions
- Modifying the environment to make the target behavior easier or more desirable
- Examples:
- Creating smoke-free zones
- Placing healthy food options in accessible locations
- Making exercise facilities more accessible
Public Health Interventions
- Policy changes: Public policies that encourage or discourage certain behaviors
- Community programs: Community-based activities that support behavior change
Using New Technology
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Using technology as a tool to support behavior change
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Examples:
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Mobile apps for tracking progress, setting reminders
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Interactive websites with motivational content
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Wearable devices for fitness tracking### Information Provision
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Information provision aims to translate knowledge and increase health literacy.
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Improved health literacy influences attitudes towards targeted behaviors and facilitates behavior change.
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It's believed to alter outcome expectancies.
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Information provision can highlight personal relevance and positive aspects of behavior change.
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However, information provision alone is generally not the most effective strategy for behavior change.
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The link between information provision and behavior change is often weak, primarily influencing intentions.
Self-Efficacy and Normative Messages
- To enhance behavior change, messages should incorporate self-efficacy messages that equip individuals with the knowledge and skills to perform the desired behavior.
- Normative messages, highlighting the prevalence of successful behavior change among peers, can also be impactful.
- The example of COVID-19 vaccination campaigns demonstrates the effectiveness of normative messaging.
Models of Health Behavior
- Numerous models in health psychology explain health behaviors, often emphasizing the role of attitudes.
- The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) suggests interventions can target attitudes by addressing underlying beliefs.
- This model focuses on behavioral beliefs, examining expected outcomes of a target behavior.
- Interventions based on the TPB can be tailored to specific behavioral beliefs identified through questioning individuals about perceived advantages and disadvantages of engaging in the target behavior.
Intervention Script Example
- A study on physical activity interventions employed a script based on elicited behavioral beliefs to change attitudes towards physical activity.
- The script included information on the benefits of exercise, such as fitness, skill development, and injury reduction.
- This approach led to more favorable attitudes and greater engagement in physical activity compared to a control group.
Mass Media Campaigns
- Mass media campaigns offer a potential avenue for influencing health behaviors.
- The "hypodermic" model of behavior change, which assumes a direct link between information, attitudes, and behavior, is often inadequate.
- While single mass media campaigns may not always yield significant results, coordinated campaigns can be more effective.
- Repeated campaigns are thought to influence knowledge, attitudes, and ultimately behavior.
- Evaluation is crucial throughout the design, implementation, and assessment of mass media campaigns.
Mass Media Strategies
- The likelihood of success in mass media campaigns is increased by using multiple interventions and focusing on one-off or episodic behaviors rather than habitual behaviors.
- Availability of relevant services to support individuals motivated by the campaign is essential.
- Policies that create conducive environments for behavior change are also important.
- Isolating the independent effects of mass media campaigns can be challenging, but they have the potential to influence population health.
Refining Communication - Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM)
- The ELM proposes two routes to processing information: central and peripheral.
- Central route processing, which occurs when individuals are motivated and able to engage with a message, is more likely to lead to strong and lasting attitude change.
- Peripheral route processing, activated when people are unmotivated or lack the capacity to fully process information, can result in weaker or less durable attitude change.
Factors Influencing Message Processing
- Preexisting interest in the issue.
- Congruence with pre-existing beliefs.
- Personal relevance.
- Intellectual capacity to understand the message.
Credibility and Attractiveness
- Maximizing the credibility and attractiveness of the message source is crucial.
- Studies have shown that high-involvement individuals are more likely to change their intentions regardless of the message route.
- However, low-involvement individuals are more receptive to strong peripheral cues.
The Use of Fear Messages
- Fear messages are a popular approach in health communication, but their effectiveness in prompting behavior change is often limited.
- Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) proposes that fear messages are most effective when they:
- Arouse fear.
- Increase perceived severity of the threat.
- Emphasize personal efficacy in avoiding the threat.
Information Framing
- Positive health messages, emphasizing the benefits of adopting a behavior, can enhance information processing, particularly when individuals have limited time or motivation.
- Negative health messages, focusing on the consequences of inaction, may be more memorable.
- However, evidence regarding the optimal framing strategy is mixed.
- Positive framing has been associated with increased sunscreen use.
- Negative framing has shown promise in promoting HPV vaccination.
- No effect of framing has been observed in breast screening attendance.
Audience Targeting
- Targeting specific audiences can enhance the effectiveness of mass media campaigns.
- Targeting can consider factors such as:
- Behavior.
- Age.
- Gender.
- Socio-economic status.
- Sexuality.
- Psychological factors, like motivation for change.
Co-creation
- Involving target groups in co-creating messages can further increase relevance and effectiveness.
Peripheral Cues
- Peripheral cues are important for information processing when motivation is low.
- Peripheral cues include source credibility and attractiveness.
- Study about African-American women and mammography advertisements found that those with higher involvement processed information regardless of central or peripheral cues.
- Women with lower involvement showed stronger intentions to seek mammograms when exposed to favorable peripheral cues.
Limitations to the Elaboration Likelihood Model
- Study on leaflets about mammography found no difference in attendance rates despite varying peripheral cues.
- This suggests limitations of the elaboration likelihood model.
- Suggests that other factors influence behaviour and attitude change is not sufficient for behaviour change.
Mass Media Campaigns
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Fear Arousing Messages:
- May be effective if they increase a sense of severity and emphasize the ability to prevent the feared outcome.
- Campaigns should include self-efficacy messages.
- Classic examples include anti-smoking campaigns offering quit-lines and counseling.
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Information Framing:
- Can be positive (stressing positive outcomes) or negative (stressing negative outcomes).
- Positive framing can enhance information processing when time is short or motivation is low.
- Negative framing can be more memorable but evidence is conflicting.
- Literature review or formative research is needed to determine which framing is more effective.
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Targeting Audience:
- Mass media campaigns should focus on specific target audiences to ensure message effectiveness.
- Important to know age, sex, socioeconomic status, and psychological factors of the target group.
- Co-creation of messages with target groups is crucial for effective campaigns.
Cognitive Strategies
- Cognitive therapy aims to change cognitions that drive harmful behaviors.
- It teaches individuals to treat beliefs as hypotheses and try out alternative ways of looking at situations.
- Uses Socratic dialogue to explore beliefs and their validity.
- Homework tasks can be set to challenge inappropriate beliefs.
Confidence and Self-efficacy
- Social cognitive theory suggests that skills and self-efficacy can be increased through multiple methods:
- Observation of others performing tasks
- Graded practice of skills
- Verbal or social persuasion
- Vicarious learning is key: learning from observation of others performing relevant tasks.
- Coping model: observing people similar to the learner succeeding at tasks.
- "This Girl Can" campaign focused on increasing self-efficacy among women by addressing barriers to physical activity and promoting diverse forms of participation.
Changing Normative Beliefs
- Provide information about others’ behaviour and their approval of the recipient’s behaviour.
- Encourage recipients to seek social comparison opportunities.
Social Support
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This is often considered a key component of effective behaviour change strategies.
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Social support can come from family, friends, communities, and support groups.
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It can provide encouragement, motivation, and accountability to those trying to change their behaviour.### Building Confidence and Self-Efficacy
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Confidence and self-efficacy can be increased through interventions like cooking skills training or practicing safe sex negotiation.
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These interventions can be offered individually or in group settings.
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Public health campaigns can also promote self-efficacy through steps like demonstrating how to wash hands properly.
Normative Beliefs
- Normative beliefs can significantly influence individual behavior, especially for adolescents.
- Strategies to change normative beliefs include providing information about others' behaviors, emphasizing social approval of desired behaviors, and encouraging social comparison.
Social Support
- Social support is crucial for behavior change, and can be provided by health professionals, family members, or friends.
- Types of support include emotional encouragement and tangible assistance like childcare or transportation.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- CBT combines cognitive and behavioral techniques to address both thoughts and actions.
- It is based on the idea that our thoughts influence our emotions and behaviors.
- Therapists help clients identify and challenge irrational beliefs (automatic thoughts) and build more balanced perspectives.
- CBT also addresses behaviors, such as helping individuals with social anxiety to engage in social situations.
- CBT is a proven effective treatment for various mental health issues.
Problem-Solving Approaches
- Problem-focused counseling (Egan, 2006) addresses how to change rather than whether to change.
- It involves detailed problem exploration, goal setting, and facilitating action using the individual's resources.
- Problem-solving is particularly applicable to smoking cessation.
Smoking Cessation
- Stopping smoking involves dealing with the loss of nicotine's mood-altering effects, withdrawal symptoms, and environmental cues that trigger cravings.
- Problem-solving strategies help smokers cope with these challenges, including avoiding smoking cues, managing cravings, and using nicotine replacement therapy.
Goal Setting Interventions
- Goal setting interventions (Aiken) are problem-oriented and focus on the present.
- They involve three distinct phases:
- Problem exploration and clarification: breaking down problems into manageable elements.
- Goal setting: identifying desired changes and setting clear, achievable goals.
- Facilitating action: developing strategies to achieve goals.
- Smoking cessation can be addressed through goal setting interventions.
Goal Setting Strategies
- SMART goals are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely.
- Setting smart goals helps individuals stay motivated and progress towards their desired outcomes.
Implementing Plans and Intentions
- Gollwitzer (1999) suggests that many individuals fail to translate intentions into action:
- They may not start, get derailed by distractions, or have difficulty overcoming initial reluctance.
- Implementation intentions use an "if-then" approach to bridge the intention-behavior gap.
- This approach involves creating a mental association between a specific cue and the desired action.
Monitoring Interventions
- Effective monitoring interventions use a systematic approach:
- Setting a monitorable goal.
- Designing a monitoring strategy.
- Processing the collected information.
Self-Monitoring
- Self-monitoring involves tracking one's progress towards goals.
- Habits are formed through repeated behavior in a specific context in response to a cue.
Habits
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Dos for habit formation:
- Support trigger events.
- Use reminders to support implementation intentions.
- Avoid reliance on technology for habit maintenance.
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Don’ts for habit formation:
- Avoid relying on external rewards or motivation.
- Avoid using technology as a primary habit-forming tool.
- Avoid time-based cues; routine-based cues are more effective.
- Avoid providing multiple plans.
- Avoid negating plans (e.g., "If I am sad, then I will not eat chocolate," as it may reinforce the undesired behavior).
Promoting Habits
- Habits can be promoted through strategic interventions:
- Create a plan for habit change.
- Monitor progress.
- Use prompts and cues, including:
- Identifying cues linked to the target behavior.
- Using environmental prompts.
- Restructuring the environment to support desired behaviors.
Habit-Based Interventions
- Hamilton et al. (2019) demonstrated the effectiveness of habit-based interventions in promoting workplace physical activity.
If Then Planning
- If Then planning helps to bridge the intention-behavior gap
- If-then plans are mental game plans that anticipate potential obstacles
- If-then plan helps turn intentions to actions.
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If-then plans:
- If [situation], Then [action]
- E.g, If you are out with friends and get asked what you want to drink, then you’ll ask for water.
- If-then plans should be written down
- If-then plans can also be turned into habits.
Environmental Influence on Health Behaviour
- An environment should provide cues to action or remove cues to unhealthy behavior
- An environment should enable health behaviors by minimizing barriers
- An environment should maximize the cost of unhealthy behavior
Cues to Action
- Cues to action can prompt good or bad behaviors.
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Examples of Cues to Action:
- Larger warning signs on tobacco products
- Posters to use the stairs
- Nutritional information on packaging
- Advertising
- Movies
Minimising the Costs of Healthy Behavior
- Healthy City Movement designed cities to promote mental and physical health.
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Examples of Healthy Cities:
- Green Space
- Cycle lanes
- Exercise equipment
- Release times for physical activity
- Marketing Campaigns
Increasing the Costs of Unhealthy Behaviour
- Increasing the Cost of unhealthy behaviors can act as barriers to unhealthy habits.
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Examples of increasing cost of unhealthy behaviors:
- Taxation on tobacco
- Tax increase on tobacco products can reduce sales
- Taxation is more effective for younger people
- Restricting the number of outlets for alcohol
- Bans such as smoke-free areas
Habit Formation
- Habit Formation is the process of learning and repeating a behavior in a specific context over time.
- Habit Formation is influenced by cues that trigger the behavior.
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Event based cues support the development of habitual action by linking a new behavior to an existing habit.
- E.g., brushing your teeth could cue you to floss your teeth
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Time based cues can prompt behavior but may hinder the development of automaticity
- E.g., using an SMS reminder for a behavior that requires consistent action
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Tips for Habit Formation
- Support trigger events - use existing habits as cues
- Avoid reliance on external rewards - focus on internal motivation
- Start simple and gradually build up
Intervention Strategies for Habit Formation
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Make a plan or implementation intention:
- E.g., If I see chocolate, then I will follow my diet
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Monitoring Strategies:
- Track progress through diaries, Fitbits etc
- Set specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound goals
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Identify Cues to Action:
- Think about cues linked to the target behavior
- Use existing actions, the environment, and personal reminders
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Re-structure the physical environment
- E.g., have a hat rack by the door, place a mask on a hook
Example of Habit Forming Intervention
- Researchers used these strategies to help sedentary office workers become more physically active.
- Intervention included:
- Identifying existing cues
- Creating individual plans
- Monitoring progress
- Using if-then statements
- Using the action planning approach
- Results showed that people strengthened their habits and increased physical activity over time
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