Purpose: to help you start thinking about the behavior change
Instructions:
- – Pick a health behavior that you are currently doing, want to be doing, or are interested in changing. For example: o Physical activity/inactivity → exercise, sedentary time
- o Diet → specific foods, portion size, meal timing, calories
- o Smoking → stick to legal substances
- o Other → sleep, meditation, etc.
- o No illegal or dangerous activities please!
- – Identify a chronic disease related to that health behavior o Use academic (journal articles), government, or health organization sources. Limit your use of the Internet to reliable sites (i.e., CDC, NIH, ACS).
- o Cite your source using APA format: indicate author(s), year of publication, name of source (specific article and journal title or textbook title and name of publishing company), and page numbers. ▪ If using a website, you must include the web address.
- Make sure to cite the original source (not someone else citing the source!)
- – Choose a technology-based method for monitoring the behavior: o Apps, websites, monitoring tools (e.g., Fitbit)
- Excel documents or other computer-based tracking are NOT technology-based
- – Monitor your chosen behavior for 7 days o Even if you don’t do the behavior on a day you must be able to show this information
- Don’t pick a behavior you rarely do
- – Briefly discuss the pros and cons of the self-monitoring method you chose.
- – Briefly discuss how accurate you think your self-monitoring was.
- – Using the Social Ecological Model (SEM), identify at least 1 factor from at least 2 levels of the SEM that influenced your chosen behavior. includes individual, personal, community or policy.
- – Use the provided form to complete the above tasks → keep responses within 1.5-pages
- upload files as a .pdf ▪ Files uploaded in another format will not be accepted
- o For proof of self-monitoring for 7 days paste screen shots or any other proof of self-monitoring you can get from your tool (some allow you to download data) into your document with the self-monitoring responses. ▪ Upload one pdf file with self-monitoring responses and proof of 7 days of self-monitoring
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