HLTH-6038-1/HLTH-8038E-1 Health Behavior Theory-Spring 2024
Module 2 Assignment
APPLYING THE HEALTH BELIEF MODEL TO POPULATIONS
The Health Belief Model (HBM) has been used extensively to create effective health behavior change interventions and programs. The focus of the HBM is to describe how certain personal beliefs influence health behavior. Using the HBM constructs of perceived benefits, perceived barriers, perceived seriousness, perceived susceptibility, cues to action, modifying variables, and self-efficacy, you will apply the health belief model to a specific health topic.
For this Assignment, the topic will be assigned by your Instructor. However, you will select a target population from the populations provided in the Target Population document found in your Learning Resources.
RESOURCES
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.
WEEKLY RESOURCES
TO PREPARE:
Review this module’s Resources.
Visit the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research’s Social and Behavioral Theories website to review the constructs of the Health Belief Model and complete Exercise 1.
Review the topic assigned to you by your Instructor. Please be sure to contact your Instructor if you have any questions.
Select one target population from the populations provided in the Target Population document found in your Learning Resources.
Select at least three peer-reviewed, scholarly articles related to your assigned topic and target population.
Submit a 3- to 4-page paper (not including title page and references) that includes the following:
Title page
Health Belief Model
In your own words, provide a brief description of the Health Belief Model.
Perceived Benefits and Perceived Barriers
Using the constructs of perceived benefits and perceived barriers, describe the assigned health topic and how these constructs apply to your selected target group. Be specific and provide examples.
Other Constructs
Select two other constructs of your choice and describe how the constructs specifically apply to your target group and the assigned health topic. Be specific and provide examples.
Summary of HBM
Summarize the HBM and its application to your selected target and assigned health topic.
APA formatted references
HLTH-6038-1/HLTH-8038E-1 Health Behavior Theory-Spring 2024
Module 3 Assignment
APPLYING THEORIES AND MODELS TO EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTIONS FOR TARGET POPULATIONS
Creating educational interventions to help improve the overall health of a target population is an essential skill for public health and health education professionals. Intervening in peoples’ lives to positively impact their health and well-being can also be rewarding. However, it is essential that the creation of educational interventions is done using the appropriate tools and skills and that you carefully select and apply theories and models to attain the best results possible.
For this Assignment, you will use the Theory of Reasoned Action/Planned Behavior to design an educational plan to counter a trend within your selected topic related to your assigned target.
RESOURCES
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.
WEEKLY RESOURCES
TO PREPARE
Download the Topics document found in your Learning Resources and select a topic from the list.
Review the Learning Resources.
Your Instructor will assign you a target population to focus on for this Assignment.
Submit a 3- to 4-page paper (not including title page and references) that includes the following:
Using the Theory of Reasoned Action/Planned Behavior, design an educational plan to counter a trend within your assigned target population related to your selected topic.
Within your educational plan, be sure to respond to the following:
List the beliefs of the target regarding the topic.
List the evaluations of those beliefs (identify list as important/not important).
What are the beliefs of the target population (subjective norm)?
Are the targets capable and confident to complete behavior (Perceived Behavioral Control)?
Note: These constructs will help you to identify the “behavioral intention” of the target for the topic. The greater the behavioral intention, the greater the potential for engaging in the behavior.
BY DAY 7 OF WEEK 5
Submit your Assignment.
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HLTH-6038-1/HLTH-8038E-1 Health Behavior Theory-Spring 2024
Module 4 Assignment
APPLYING THE SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL MODEL
The Social-Ecological Model (SEM) has been used to explain/predict behavior from an ecological perspective. The focus of the SEM is to describe how specific levels of influence, as well as internal and external factors, interact to impact and shape health behavior. Using the levels of intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, community, and societal factors, you will be asked to apply the SEM to a specific health topic. While the topic will be assigned by your Instructor, you will select a target group to focus on.
RESOURCES
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.
WEEKLY RESOURCES
TO PREPARE
Review the topic assigned to you by your Instructor.
Download the Target Population document from your Learning Resources and select one target population to focus on.
Review the Module 4 Resources.
Submit a 3- to 4-page paper (not including title page and references) that includes the following:
Title page
Social-Ecological Model
In your own words, provide a brief description of the Social-Ecological Model.
Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Levels
Describe how the intrapersonal and interpersonal levels can/do influence the assigned health topic and how these levels pertain to your selected target group. Be specific and provide examples.
Institutional, Community, and Societal Levels
Describe how the institutional, community, and societal levels can/do impact the assigned health topic and how these levels pertain to your selected target group. Be specific and provide examples.
Challenges to Achieving Health Equity
Describe how structural bias, social inequities, and racism can create challenges to achieving health equity for your specific targeted group for your assigned health topic.
Summary of the Application of SEM
Summarize the application of the SEM to your selected target group and assigned health topic.
Reference List
Include a reference list using APA format.
Note: Remember to cite your sources within your text where you refer to them, using APA format. Be sure to include peer-reviewed journal articles that establish the evidence-based research for your responses.
BY DAY 7 OF WEEK 7
Submit your paper.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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Next, click on Upload File and select Submit Assignment for review.
HLTH-6038-1/HLTH-8038E-1 Health Behavior Theory-Spring 2024
Module 5 Assignment
APPLYING THE PRECEDE-PROCEED MODEL
From an ecological perspective, the Precede-Proceed model has been used to plan effective behavior change programs for over three decades. It was originally developed as the Precede model, with the Proceed part concentrating on intervention and evaluation added later.
The PRECEDE acronym stands for Predisposing, Reinforcing, and Enabling Constructs in Educational and/or Environmental Diagnosis and Evaluation. While the PROCEED acronym represents Policy, Regulatory, and Organizational Constructs in Educational and Environmental Development.
The following phases make up the Precede part:
Phase 1: Social Assessment
Phase 2: Epidemiological, Behavioral, and Environmental Assessment
Phase 3: Educational and Ecological Assessment
Phase 4: Administrative and Policy Assessment and Intervention Alignment
The Proceed part of the model consists of:
Phase 5: Implementation
Phase 6: Process evaluation
Phase 7: Impact evaluation
Phase 8: Outcome evaluation
The focus of the model is on the outcome rather than the activities. Using the eight phases, you will be asked to apply the Precede-Proceed model to a specific health topic and target population.
Planning, implementing, and evaluating a successful intervention, with its many “moving parts,” requires planners to have a “framework” by which to track the critical aspects of the intervention. Intervention Mapping provides for a sort of scope and sequence timeline, with key decision points, so that decisions can be made efficiently and effectively at these key points of planning, implementation, and evaluation. Intervention Mapping allows planners to use theory constructs to assess needs and strengths of a population, and design initiatives to address (needs) or utilize (strengths) these in a systematic order. As with any event, the process requires specific planning, and in public health education, Intervention Mapping can be a meaningful tool.
Both the Precede-Proceed model and Intervention Mapping will assist you in utilizing theory and effectively designing health interventions. Using theory and planning models as a basis for designing health interventions will result in more successful outcomes for target populations.
While the target population will be assigned by your Instructor, you will be asked to select a topic from the Topics document found in this module’s Resources.
RESOURCES
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.
WEEKLY RESOURCES
TO PREPARE
Download the Topics document from your Learning Resources and select one topic to focus on.
Review the Module 5 Resources.
Submit a 6- to 7-page paper (not including title page or references) that includes the following:
Title page
Section headers addressing each of the following required sections for the narrative:
In your own words, provide a brief description of the Precede-Proceed model.
Using the Phase 2: Epidemiological, Behavioral, and Environmental Assessment, expand upon the factors you selected for this phase.
Discuss/compare the behavior/lifestyle and environmental factors for your topic and target group.
Explain why these were selected and deemed important to the health topic and target group.
Using the Phase 3-Educational and Ecological assessment, discuss the predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors for your topic and target group.
Explain why these were selected and deemed important to the health topic and target group.
Using the Phase 4-Administration and policy assessment and Intervention Alignment, discuss the health education and policy regulation factors for your topic and target group.
Explain why these were selected and deemed important to the health topic and target group.
Briefly discuss how Phases 5–8 of the Proceed part of the model apply to your topic and target group.
Summarize the Precede-Proceed Model and its application to your selected target group and assigned health topic.
Include a reference list using APA format.
Note:
Cite the sources within your text where you refer to them, using APA format.
Be sure to include peer-reviewed journal articles that establish the evidence-based research for your responses.
Be sure to present your narrative in paragraph form and avoid simply listing or bulleting the information.
Your final document should include title page, the narrative and an APA reference list presented in the format as described in the instructions.
BY DAY 7 OF WEEK 9
Submit your paper.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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HLTH-6038-1/HLTH-8038E-1 Health Behavior Theory-Spring 2024
Module 6 Assignment
PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THEORY/MODELS IN “REAL WORLD” SITUATIONS
For this Assignment, you will identify a health issue (topic) and a target population from within your community. The specific community health issue and target population selected for this intervention must be a verifiable health topic and target in your specific community. Then, using any of the theories/models discussed in this course, you will create an intervention to address this public health issue. The constructs of the theory/model chosen must be used in the creation of the intervention to address the selected population health issue. The resulting intervention must attempt to impact health behaviors or threats to the health and well-being of the selected target population.
This Assignment is about being creative and innovative, within the confines of evidence-based theory and producing an intervention. Your intervention can be either a one-time shot or long-term program that could be of value in addressing the specific need within the community in which you reside. Budget is not necessarily a concern here, so go wild if you like! Grading for this assignment will consider the following:
Understanding of the theory/model chosen
Feasibility of the intervention created based on the theory/model constructs
Level of creativity in addressing an identified community issue
RESOURCES
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.
WEEKLY RESOURCES
TO PREPARE
Explain why you chose the particular health issue within your community. (Examples might be alcohol use reduction for teens at prom, anti-smoking campaigns for construction workers, HIV/AIDS education programs for elementary students, disease prevention and health promotion for seniors at a long-term care facility, or increasing diagnostic testing participation for colonoscopies with middle-class women over 60 years of age.)
The specific topic and target population must be selected from your community and must be a verifiable issue. To be verifiable, it must have been a newspaper story, a health department memo or newsletter, a city proclamation, or any issue for which you can provide actual documentation, to verify, that the issue you chose was one currently or recently occurring in your community. That documentation must be provided with your response.
Choose a specific theory or model, and explain why you are using this one in creating an intervention to address this public health issue. Your intervention must use the constructs of the theory/model and must be specific to the target group, for that topic, in your community. For example, the Social-Ecological Model (discussed last MOD) is composed of levels, namely interpersonal, intrapersonal, institutional, community, and societal. It is based on the belief that change within the physical and social environments will also influence health behavior within individuals. Consequently, if one chose the SEM as their theory/model, emphasis on the 5 levels would be critical. If, on the other hand, the Social Capital Theory was chosen, it is based on networks and relationships, with the two important factors being trust and reciprocity. So, your intervention most certainly would address cooperation, working together, and building strong bonds for healthy relationships and communities.
Write an 8- to 9-page paper (not including title page and references) that includes the following:
Title page
Introduction of health issue and target population with documentation and brief explanation
Theory/model to be employed in addressing issue (explain why you chose this theory/model)
Identify the constructs of the theory/model and explain how they apply to your community issue
At least one paragraph specifically describing your intervention for each construct
Evaluation of intervention
Conclusion
BY DAY 7 OF WEEK 10
Submit your Assignment.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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