Advocating for Behavior Change With Education

Arlinghaus, Katherine R.; Johnston, Craig A.

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“…This technique requires the identification and use of community groups (external and internal) that most members of the community frequently orient themselves with and to use them to modify emptying perceptions that could create the attitudes and intentions to undertake the desired emptying behaviour (Tom et al, 1987); V. Evaluating and addressing the feedback of target populations is a technique designed to make agreed solutions more responsive and meet the goals of the perception change programme so as to cause a change in behaviour (Arlinghaus and Johnston, 2017). Feedback techniques whether generic, targeted and/or personalised should provide useful solutions to address all challenges that militated against the adoption of the desired behaviour (Arlinghaus and Johnston, 2017); and VI. Information and education provides knowledge, facts, and skills that are needed to strengthen the perceptions that create the right attitudes and intentions of households to adopt desired emptying behaviour.…”

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Perception management of non-sewered sanitation systems towards scheduled faecal sludge emptying behaviour change intervention

Cookey

Kugedera²,

Alamgir

et al. 2020

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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This paper explores the influence of perception on behaviours associated with emptying of faecal sludge from non-sewered sanitation systems using findings from a study on the emptying behaviour of residents of Khulna city, Bangladesh. The purpose of the study was to highlight perception as a behaviour determinants as well as develop perception management strategies for the design, plan and implementation of effective behaviour change intervention programmes with a focus on ‘scheduled emptying’. The study uses a mixed-method cross-sectional approach to collect data through structured household questionnaire surveys, face-to-face key informant interviews, group interviews, and structured observations. The study revealed that the emptying behaviour of the community was reactive, untimely and unsafe and over half of the systems had never been emptied, which was traced to emptying perceptions that encouraged a laissez-faire attitude within households and the community. The study concluded by proposing a perception management model to achieve behaviour change towards scheduled emptying via perception change.

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Perception management of non-sewered sanitation systems towards scheduled faecal sludge emptying behaviour change intervention

Cookey

Kugedera²,

Alamgir

et al. 2020

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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“…The goal of the group education in this study was to ensure that adolescent athletes maintained healthy eating habits and positive body image to achieve a healthy lifestyle and high athletic performance. However, as education alone cannot guarantee positive behavioral changes, it is necessary to encourage adolescent athletes to change their dietary behavior by improving their personal awareness and skills through customized counseling 34 . Although most adolescent athletes understand that optimal nutrition is essential in training programs 35 , the vast majority of them do not link nutritional knowledge with practical food choice behaviors 36 .…”

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Development of an Evidence-based Nutritional Intervention Protocol for Adolescent Athletes

Lee

Lim

2019

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[Purpose]Effective nutritional intervention can help reduce the risk of nutritional problems and improve athletic performance in adolescents. The five A’s (assess, advise, agree, assist, and arrange) model is widely used as the theoretical framework for advice on nutrition, smoking, drinking, and physical activity and it recommends that practitioners in primary health care promote behavior change to facilitate positive outcomes. This model has also been useful in understanding the underlying processes of behavior change. This study aimed to develop both a novel evidence-based nutritional intervention protocol, rooted in sound nutritional theory, and a customizable nutritional intervention program to support sustainable healthy eating, enhance nutrient intake, and improve athletic performance in adolescent athletes.[Methods]In this study, we adapted the 5 A’s behavioral change model and motivational interview to develop a theoretical framework to help adolescent athletes change their behavior and achieve their goals.[Results]During each step of the 5 A’s protocol, a customized nutritional intervention protocol was developed by nutrition experts for each of adolescent athletes. Each plan was developed to improve the eating habits of adolescent athletes through group education and counseling. All nutritional counseling sessions were designed to enable participants to apply nutritional knowledge and practical action plans to their training and competition conditions to enable each of them to achieve individual athletic goals and facilitate self-management. [Conclusion]A theoretical and evidence-based nutritional intervention protocol was developed to identify and address obstacles to healthy dietary habits in adolescent athletes. This could be used as the basis for further studies aimed at improving nutrient intake and athletic performance in adolescent athletes.

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“…Health educational interventions are not only effective in increasing knowledge and awareness, but several studies have also demonstrated change in disease-specific measures and outcomes following educational interventions (Ghisi et al, 2014). While often critical in informing change, general knowledge alone is not enough to drive behavior change if the education does not build relevant skills and enhance self-efficacy to engage in the targeted health behavior (Arlinghaus & Johnston, 2018). In the current study, participants were educated on "what to do" but also on "how to do it" to achieve the desired results.…”

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Culturally Responsive Health Promotion to Address Health Disparities in African American Men: A Program Impact Evaluation

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African American (AA) men continue to experience worse health outcomes compared to men of other races/ethnicities. Community-based interventions are known to be effective in health promotion and disease prevention. The program objectives were to (a) increase knowledge and risk awareness of targeted conditions, (b) change health-care-seeking attitudes toward regular primary care among AA men, and (c) improve their lifestyle-related health behaviors by leveraging the influence of women in their lives. The community-engaged educational intervention targeted both men and women and included eight 90-min sessions per cohort. Topics included prostate cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, mental health, health-care access, and healthy lifestyle. Sessions were both didactic and interactive. A pre-/post-intervention questionnaire assessed knowledge. Interviews were conducted with male participants and a focus group discussion (FGD) with women to assess program impact. Interview and FGD transcripts were analyzed for themes and recommendations. Major themes were—increased knowledge/awareness of risk associated with chronic conditions, change in health-care-seeking attitudes, increased self-efficacy to engage the health-care system, and lifestyle changes. Other impacts reported were building community/social support, a safe and enabling learning environment, and enhanced community health status overall. Recommendations included having extended, more in-depth sessions, targeting the younger generation, smaller cohort sizes, and more community-based health programming. Community-engaged health promotion using a cohort model as well as including women can be effective in increasing knowledge, enhancing self-efficacy, and providing the much-needed social support. These can influence health-related behaviors and thus contribute to improving health outcomes for AA men.

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Advocating for Behavior Change With Education

Cited by 246 publications

References 24 publications

Perception management of non-sewered sanitation systems towards scheduled faecal sludge emptying behaviour change intervention

Perception management of non-sewered sanitation systems towards scheduled faecal sludge emptying behaviour change intervention

Development of an Evidence-based Nutritional Intervention Protocol for Adolescent Athletes

Culturally Responsive Health Promotion to Address Health Disparities in African American Men: A Program Impact Evaluation

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