- Select and define a health behavior. Select and define a health behavior (e.g. strength training, sugar consumption, vaccination, medication adherence) for a specific population (e.g. women, adults over 65 year or age, adolescents, college students, Hispanic/non-Hispanic). Provide a specific definition of the behavior; for example, HPV vaccination is defined a adolescents receiving all 3 scheduled HPV vaccinations between ages 9 and 14. When possible, use existing definitions or standards; for example, the American College of Sports Medicine defines strength training for adults is defined as engaging in at least 8-12 repetitions of 8 to 10 resistance training exercises at least twice a week.
- Select a Theory. Select a theory from chapters 4 – 9 that you think can provide a reasonable explanation about why people do or do not engage in the health behavior you have selected. You may have to do an initial literature search to determine which theory is a good fit for your selected behavior.
- Create search flow charts. Use the Texas State University search engines to locate public health research in which this behavior has been investigated using theory to identify antecedents to the behavior. Use only articles published in the past 10 years. To complete your search, use the following databases: CINAHL Complete, ERIC, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, MEDLINE Complete, PsycARTICES, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, PsycINFO, and SRORTDiscus. Create a flow chart (as show below) and present the number of articles identified, excluded, and included. Your assignment should include at least 5 flow charts.
- Appraise the evidence and enter relevant articles
- into the literature review matrix. Review the article list and discard redundant articles. Now, read the title and abstract of the articles from your search and discard any that don’t help you identify antecedents to the health behavior. Enter each relevant article into the literature review matrix, including article reference, theory/constructs used, and findings. The final literature review matrix should contain at least 10 articles.
- Analyze the evidence. Collectively, what do the articles you collected tell us about the relationships between the antecedents and the health behavior. Be sure to discuss the relationships between each antecedent and health behavior based on the theoretical frameworks of the theory and constructs used in the studies (Hint: refer to construct definitions). Finally, offer a synopsis of how understanding these antecedents to the behavior can help public health professionals.
- Use the attached template to complete the assignment.
- All responses should be written in complete sentences with proper grammar and spelling.
- Use APA citation style to indicate the source of information for all responses (i.e. provide in text citations and references for ALL answers). Visit the Purdue Online Writing Lab for help with
- Select and define a health behavior. Select and define a health behavior (e.g. strength training, sugar consumption, vaccination, medication adherence) for a specific population (e.g. women, adults over 65 year or age, adolescents, college students, Hispanic/non-Hispanic). Provide a specific definition of the behavior; for example, HPV vaccination is defined a adolescents receiving all 3 scheduled HPV vaccinations between ages 9 and 14. When possible, use existing definitions or standards; for example, the American College of Sports Medicine defines strength training for adults is defined as engaging in at least 8-12 repetitions of 8 to 10 resistance training exercises at least twice a week.
- Select a Theory. Select a theory from chapters 4 – 9 that you think can provide a reasonable explanation about why people do or do not engage in the health behavior you have selected. You may have to do an initial literature search to determine which theory is a good fit for your selected behavior.
- Create search flow charts. Use the Texas State University search engines to locate public health research in which this behavior has been investigated using theory to identify antecedents to the behavior. Use only articles published in the past 10 years. To complete your search, use the following databases: CINAHL Complete, ERIC, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, MEDLINE Complete, PsycARTICES, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, PsycINFO, and SRORTDiscus. Create a flow chart (as show below) and present the number of articles identified, excluded, and included. Your assignment should include at least 5 flow charts.
- Appraise the evidence and enter relevant articles into the literature review matrix. Review the article list and discard redundant articles. Now, read the title and abstract of the articles from your search and discard any that don’t help you identify antecedents to the health behavior. Enter each relevant article into the literature review matrix, including article reference, theory/constructs used, and findings. The final literature review matrix should contain at least 10 articles.
- Analyze the evidence. Collectively, what do the articles you collected tell us about the relationships between the antecedents and the health behavior. Be sure to discuss the relationships between each antecedent and health behavior based on the theoretical frameworks of the theory and constructs used in the studies (Hint: refer to construct definitions). Finally, offer a synopsis of how understanding these antecedents to the behavior can help public health professionals.
- Use the attached template to complete the assignment.
- All responses should be written in complete sentences with proper grammar and spelling.
- Use APA citation style to indicate the source of information for all responses (i.e. provide in text citations and references for ALL answers). Visit the Purdue Online Writing Lab for help with APA citation style.
(For Select A Theory Section) I have uploaded the 4 options of theories from chapters 4-9 that are to be picked from. Only 1 theory is to be picked.