Behavior Change Theories And Planning Models
Behavior Change Theories and Planning Models
Melinda Green
HCA 331: Introduction to Health Care Education
Instructor: Sandra Gaston
December 22, 2014
For this assignment I will describe the difference between theories and models. Why it is important to use theories in health education. Then I will describe the socio-ecological approach and which levels can be applied to reasoning. Then provide a description of behavior change theories. Then provide information regarding one theory from each level and its effectiveness in health education. Then describe the seven program planning models highlighting the unique attributes of each model while discussing similarities found across the model. Lastly describe three models with real world …show more content…
Department of Health and Human Services [USDHHS], 2001)The Health Communication Model (National Cancer Institute [NCI], 2002) The Planning, Program Development, and Evaluation Model (Timmreck, 2003) MAP-IT (USDHHS, 2011) SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) Analysis” (Cottrell 121) similarities to all of these is that they all have education in mind and what is best for the student to …show more content…
He felt extremely lucky to “beat out” 15 interviewees for the health education specialist position at the Lancaster County Health Department. Though the health department has a good reputation throughout the state, Mike is the only person on the staff hired to do health education. Mike’s supervisor, Dan Santoro, is Coordinator of Chronic and Infectious Disease for the health department. Santoro has worked for the department for about 30 years. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from the same university Mike graduated from. However, Santoro received his degree in health and physical education before the implementation of the current community/public health education major. Throughout Mike’s tenure with the health department, he and Santoro have had a good working relationship. However, while planning a weight-loss program for a group of teenagers in the county, Mike ran into a situation that caused him some concern. After conducting a needs assessment and writing the program goals and objectives, he could not decide which behavior change theory to use to plan his intervention. He decided to seek Santoro’s advice. When he asked Santoro what theory or model he would recommend, Santoro responded, “Theory-shmeary, you don’t need to use that stuff, just skip the theory part and plan the intervention. This program needs to be up and running by the end of the
Melinda Green
HCA 331: Introduction to Health Care Education
Instructor: Sandra Gaston
December 22, 2014
For this assignment I will describe the difference between theories and models. Why it is important to use theories in health education. Then I will describe the socio-ecological approach and which levels can be applied to reasoning. Then provide a description of behavior change theories. Then provide information regarding one theory from each level and its effectiveness in health education. Then describe the seven program planning models highlighting the unique attributes of each model while discussing similarities found across the model. Lastly describe three models with real world …show more content…
Department of Health and Human Services [USDHHS], 2001)The Health Communication Model (National Cancer Institute [NCI], 2002) The Planning, Program Development, and Evaluation Model (Timmreck, 2003) MAP-IT (USDHHS, 2011) SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) Analysis” (Cottrell 121) similarities to all of these is that they all have education in mind and what is best for the student to …show more content…
He felt extremely lucky to “beat out” 15 interviewees for the health education specialist position at the Lancaster County Health Department. Though the health department has a good reputation throughout the state, Mike is the only person on the staff hired to do health education. Mike’s supervisor, Dan Santoro, is Coordinator of Chronic and Infectious Disease for the health department. Santoro has worked for the department for about 30 years. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from the same university Mike graduated from. However, Santoro received his degree in health and physical education before the implementation of the current community/public health education major. Throughout Mike’s tenure with the health department, he and Santoro have had a good working relationship. However, while planning a weight-loss program for a group of teenagers in the county, Mike ran into a situation that caused him some concern. After conducting a needs assessment and writing the program goals and objectives, he could not decide which behavior change theory to use to plan his intervention. He decided to seek Santoro’s advice. When he asked Santoro what theory or model he would recommend, Santoro responded, “Theory-shmeary, you don’t need to use that stuff, just skip the theory part and plan the intervention. This program needs to be up and running by the end of the