Changing Behavior
Jill Gallin BSN, MS, CPNP
Health Promotion Disease Prevention
N4225

The Extended Parallel
Process Model
Two appraisal processes
Threat Appraisal
Efficacy Appraisal
Three Outcomes
No response with low perceived threat
Acceptance when perceived threat and efficacy are high
Rejection when perceived threat is high, but efficacy is low
Example (seat belts)

Persuasive Message Theories
Health Belief Model
Theory of Reasoned Action
Social Cognitive Theory
Elaboration Likelihood Model

Health Belief Model
Very popular!
Example (immunization campaigns)
Five Factors
Perceived barriers to performing the recommended response
Perceived benefits of performing the recommended response
Perceived susceptibility to a health threat
Cues to action (media, family, etc.)

Theory of Reasoned Action
One’s own beliefs about performing a behavior (attitude)
Subjective norm
Beliefs about what other people think about the behavior and the motivation to comply with those other people (referents).

Social-Cognitive Theory
Self Efficacy
Peoples beliefs that they can exert control over their motivation and behavior and over their social environment (people doubt this)
Outcome Expectation
What you think will happen if you take a certain action

Elaboration Likelihood Model
Promote central processing
(not peripheral processing).
This takes work. Results in long lasting behavior change.

Theories
Explain how variables work together to influence health behaviors
Variables are threat, efficacy and barriers
(Detail is beyond the scope of this class)

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Approaches
Describe different steps to increase the persuasiveness of a health risk message
Stages of Change Model & Social Marketing are approaches

Stages of Change Model
Prochaska & DiClemente 1992
Characterized by incremental steps, relapse, and sustainability
Not a linear progression, rather a spiral with relapses

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The Stages
Pre-contemplation
Contemplation
Preparation
Action
Maintenance

Precontemplation
Denial
No perceived problem
No association of problem with behavior

Contemplation
Realistic assessment of one self
Unable to confront problem or behavior

Preparation
Actively gathering information in preparation for behavior change

Action
A change in behavior

Maintenance
Constant vigilance to avoid relapse
Remember behavior related illness are always potentially “chronic!”

Levels of Prevention (3)
Primary
Aimed at those who have not started a risk behavior
Secondary
Aimed at those who do not exhibit chronic behavior
Tertiary
Aimed at Treatment & Maintenance

Elements of Prevention (4)
Education
Treatment
Public Policy
Law Enforcement

Education
Limit demand by providing information
Changing attitudes and beliefs
Providing skills (examples)
Changing behavior

Treatment
Removal physical & environmental conditions that contribute to behavior (AA, NA)
Psychological and physical hooks

Public Policy & Law Enforcement
Courses of Actions pursued by the government

All the levels
&
Elements of Prevention
Save Money

Where can we apply Stages of Change Model?
All levels of prevention
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Two elements of prevention
Education
Treatment

Categorize the Behavior
Addictive Behavior (physical & psychological)
Tobacco use (Nicotine)
Drug abuse (Heroine, crack, cocaine)
Alcohol abuse (ETOH)
High Risk Behavior (psychological hook)
Over eating/ under exercising
Violence
Unsafe practices
Injury related
Sex related

Techniques for Stage Placing

Take an Excellent Health History
“The Techniques of Skilled Interviewing” (NO THREATS)
Active listening
Adaptive questioning
Nonverbal communication
Facilitation
Echoing
Empathetic responses
Validation
Reassurance
Summarization
Highlighting Transitions

Understand the Difference
Illness
How the patient experiences the symptoms
Disease
The explanation the clinician brings to the symptoms

The 4 A’s
Ask
Advise (personalize)
Assist
Arrange
How does the patient react?

Be Informed!

Applying the
Stages of Change Model

"Individual Applications"
Individual Applications
&
Societal Applications

Smoking Cessation

Tobacco Facts

Tobacco kills more people than all of these causes of death combined:
Car crashes
AIDS
Suicide
Homicide
Illicit Drug use
Alcohol

"One in every five deaths..."
One in every five deaths in the
United States
is smoking related

"On average smokers die"
On average smokers die
about seven years earlier than nonsmokers

"Cigarette smoke contains 4,000 chemicals"
Cigarette smoke contains 4,000 chemicals
43 known carcinogens
401 highly toxic substances
Examples of poisons: carbon monoxide, cyanide, formaldehyde

Why Smoke?
Psychological & Physical
Hooks

Nicotine is Not Addictive?!

Commercial Break

CEO’s of Big Tobacco
Congress  1994

Smoking Cessation
An individual Application

Living Well . . . Tobacco Free
Presented by the American Cancer Society Eastern Division Inc.
Refer to the book for Stages of Change Page

Four Program Components (encompass the elements of prevention)
Tobacco Education
Clearing the Air
Freshstart **
Staying off smoking **

Freshstart Sessions
(encompass the stages of change)
Understanding Why and How (contemplation & preparation)
Managing the First Few Days (Action)
Mastering the Obstacles (Action)
Staying Quit and Enjoying it Forever (Maintenance)

Smoking Cessation
A Societal Application

CDC recognizes Tobacco Cessation as one of the ten greatest public health achievements of the 20th Century

Where have we begun to succeed as a society?
Public Policy & Law Enforcement
elements of prevention

Legislation
1964 Surgeon general established advisory committee on Tobacco which suggested relationship to cancer in writing.
1965 Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act requiring surgeon general’s warning on all packs.
1971 all broadcast advertising was banned.
1990 smoking banned on all interstate buses and domestic airline flights lasting six hours or less.

More legislation
1992 Synar Amendment passed: federal law that requires all states to adopt legislation that prohibits the sale and distribution of tobacco products to people under age 18.
1994 attorney generals of 4 states sued big tobacco.  Settlement in Mississippi, Florida, Texas.  Recouped millions for smokers medical bills.
1995 Bill Clinton announced FDA plans to regulate tobacco, especially sales to minors
1998 6.5 billion dollar settlement in Minnesota.  Public knowledge of deceit.
Set back in 1998- Senate rejected MCain bill to raise taxes and change policy

Achievements
Smoking prevalence rates among adults aged 18 years and older decreased from 42.4% in 1965 to 24.7% in 1997
1.6 million deaths were postponed, saving more than 3 million person-years of life

BUT
Since 1990 smoking prevalence among adults is virtually unchanged
Adolescent smoking increased 28.3% from 1991 to 1997
Second hand smoke is still a big problem

Where do providers fall short?
Only 15% of smokers who saw a provider in the past year were offered assistance with quitting
Only 3% were given a follow up appointment to address this topic
Only 9% of managed care organizations have fully implemented the guidelines for coverage

Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guideline, 2000
Effective treatments exist (psychiatric hook)
Every patient who uses tobacco should be offered treatment
Strong dose-response relationship, effectiveness increases with intensity of treatment
Treatment is insured & clinicians are reimbursed (far from 100%)
Pharmacotherapy (physical hook)
Clinically effective and cost effective

As a society, we are SLOWLY changing our behavior
Providers
Legislators
Consumers
Big tobacco (because they have to!)

Weight Loss
Individual Applications

Examples
“Practical Clinical Behavioral Treatment of Obesity,” by Ingela Melin & Stephan Rossner (2003) refer to the article for Prochaska reference #15
“The Therapeutic challenge: behavioral changes for long-term weight maintenance,” by Westehoefer (2001)

Westhoefer’s Stages
Problem consciousness (contemplation)
Attitudinal change (preparation)
Behavioral change (Action)
Behavioral trial (Action)
Behavioral stabilization (Maintenance)

Are the programs effective?
Westenhoefer says, yes and no.
“Isolated changes of single behaviors will not suffice for long-term success, but more complex changes of many behaviors and perhaps life-style as a whole are necessary for long-term weight maintenance.”
Meal rhythm and frequency, quality of food, meal situations, restriction of food
Melin & Rosner don’t have patient data.
But they do feel that they changed the attitudes of the health care personnel.  “850 nurses, dietitians and other health care personnel have been educated – overall these participants find their education and supervisions meaningful and valuable.”

Why does this research seem inconclusive?

Weight Loss
Societal Implications

Levels of Prevention
Education (little has been done)
Fast food healthy choices
Public schools
Treatment
For Profit “Diets”
Weight Watchers
Atkins
LA weight loss
Public Policy & law enforcement
Schools: California (has ban in place) & New York
17 states (NY) have “sin taxes” on soda & junk food
What if things were different? Will Doritos get sued?

Safer Sex
Individual Applications
?

Abstinence

Safer Sex
Societal Applications
(Because people have sex with somebody else)

ESID
Experimental Social Innovation and Dissemination (1977) Fairweather & Tornatzky
Behavior Change Model Variant for Societal implications carried out traditionally by scientists
“HIV, Sex, and Social Change: Applying ESID Principles to HIV Prevention Research,” By Fernandez, et al. (2003)

ESID parameters
Must address a pressing social issue
Be guided by humanitarian values
Include representative of the affected community

Why?
In 1989 68% of all adult/adolescent AIDS cases were of MSM
Not because they are homosexual, but because of their high risk behavior.

ESID Principles
Adoption of an idea with verification of peer support
“Opinion Leaders”
Safe Sex Endorsers
Behavior Change Advocates
Chosen by bartenders

Results at 2 months
25% decrease in unprotected anal intercourse
30% decrease in unprotected receptive anal intercourse
16% increase in condom use
18% decrease in proportion of men with more than one partner

Results after 1 Year
65% decrease in unprotected anal intercourse
50% increase in condom use

In conclusion

What’s in common?
Ownership of the problem
Group support
Program longevity
“Life Savors”
Facilitators
Harm reduction
No vaccines, limited pharmacology Tx
Fatality when not adhered to

What is Different?
Unfortunately,
you can’t use a condom in stages

Complementary Medical Interventions
Pharmacotherapy
Methadone maintenance
Nicotine gum, patch, nasal spray, Zyban, clonidine
Surgery
“Stomach stapling” Gastric Bypass Surgery
Alternative Therapy
Acupuncture
Hypnosis
Herbal Therapy

Changing Behavior of Providers
Increases ownership of a societal behavior problem
Shares the burden of the problem behavior
Validates a behavior as a problem
Makes a difference