ITHCS - Module 3: Choices for Change: A Healthy Decision

Health Status

Health Status

Sum of the positive and negative influences on a person’s health and wellbeing

PREDISPOSING FACTORS

Factors involving demographic profiles, educational background, and access to health care

ENABLING FACTORS

Factors involving skills, abilities, or accessibility that makes health decisions more convenient

POSITIVE ENABLER

encourage you to carry through on your intentions

REINFORCING FACTORS

Factors that reward or reinforce the desired behavior change include social support, economic rewards, and changing social norms.

NEGATIVE ENABLER

work against your intentions to change

BELIEFS

Health status and past experiences

VALUES

worthy ideas and guiding principles

ATTITUDES

Internal judgement

Decide the problem

First D in DECIDE

Explore the alternatives

First E in DECIDE

Consider the consequences

C in DECIDE

Identify your Values

I in DECIDE

Decide and take Action

2nd D in DECIDE

Evaluate the Decision

2nd E in DECIDE

Healthful, Ethical, Legal, and Parent approval (HELP)

(Consequences) Weigh the possible outcomes through these options

BEHAVIOR CHANGE TECHNIQUES

are observable and active intervention components aiming to regulate behavior

SHAPING

Behavior change technique: developing new behaviors is small gradual steps

VISUALIZING/IMAGINED REHEARSAL

Behavior change technique: practicing through mental imagery to produce better performance of an event in actual setting

MODELING

Behavior change technique: learning specific behaviors by careful observation of other's action

SITUATIONAL INDUCEMENT

Behavior change technique: attempt to influence a behavior by using situations and occasions that are structured to exert control over that behavior

POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT

Behavior change technique: presenting something positive as a reward for behaviors reinforced

SELF-TALK

Behavior change technique: thinking and talking to yourself through these cognitive procedures

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTE

behaviors such as beliefs, expectations, motives, values, perceptions, and other cognitive elements

PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS

behaviors such as affective and emotional states and traits

OVERT BEHAVIOR PATTERNS

behaviors such as actions and habits that relate to health maintenance, health restoration, and health improvement

PREVENTIVE HEALTH BEHAVIOR

healthy individuals who engage in any activity for the purpose of preventing or detecting illness in an asymptomatic state.

ILLNESS BEHAVIOR

ill individual who engages in activity to first define the state of health and then to discover a suitable remedy.

SICK-ROLE BEHAVIOR

Ill individuals who engage in activities for the purpose of getting well.

Health literacy

degree which individuals can obtain and understand basic health information and services