solved Purpose: to help you start thinking about the behavior change

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. â–ª 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 â–ª 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. â–ª Upload one pdf file with self-monitoring responses and proof of 7 days of self-monitoring