Topic
Reduce Risky Behaviors among college students
Part I of the project should describe the scientific evidence to answer the questions below. Assume that your major focus is on the behavior in the United States, although information from other countries may be applicable.
a) 15 points: Is the behavior clearly related to one or more documented health outcomes? What is the evidence for the relationship? (In some cases, provide a more specific definition for the behavior; for example, if a topic concerned “physical activity” possibly choose to narrow the behavior to “walking for exercise.” Also, the student may wish to select one particular health outcome to focus on).
b) 10 points: How common (prevalent) is the behavior? How common (prevalent) is the health outcome? The assigned topics indicate a potential population of interest, but may need to be defined more specifically (for example, if the assigned topic says “in adolescents,” is there a particular geographic or demographic group of interest?).
c) 15 points: Background information about the behavior – What makes the behavior more likely to occur? What makes the behavior difficult to change? Some things to examine could be characteristics of the behavior itself (for example, the behavior might be very pleasurable, habitual, or involve addiction), the individual (personal characteristics), society (social norms, what others are doing) and the larger environment (resources, policies) that make the behavior easier or more difficult to change.
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