Individual Level Intervention Strategies

1. Individual Level Intervention Strategies December 5, 2002

2. Individual Level Interventions • Study of individual behavior change is a core area of psychology • Interventions designed to increase/maintain regular exercise reflects ideas of psychology • Early psychopathologsits beliefs

3. Interventions Defined • Health-promoting activities that originate from a health promotion team with the intention of instilling/maintaining health-related attitudes, norms, and behaviors, in a specific target

4. Success of Intervention Programs • Dishman & Buckworth (1996) found 127 with ~131,000 subjects who were targeted in community, worksite, school, home, and health care settings • Studies tested interventions designed to increase PA • Pearson correlation coefficients were found (.10, .30, .50)

5. Dishman & Buckworth Findings • Several types of interventions are commonly used • Completed comparisons among 7 general categories of interventions

6. Types of Individual Interventions • Behavior modification (r=.91) • Cognitive behavior modification (r=.10) • Health education (r=.10)

7. Types of Individual Interventions • Health-risk appraisal (r=.10) • Exercise prescription (r=.21) • PE curriculum (r=.21) • Combinations (r=.11)

8. Setting of Interventions • General community-based interventions produce better results when compared to home, school, or health-care settings • Interventions delivered in the presence of others are superior to those delivered to people on their own

9. Settings of Interventions • Interventions promoting leisure-time PA are more sucessful than those promoting strength or aerobic exercise • Interventions promoting moderate intensity PA are more successful than those promoting strenuous exercises