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