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Individual Level Intervention
Strategies
December 5, 2002
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
Interventions Defined
• Health-promoting activities that originate
from a health promotion team with the
intention of instilling/maintaining healthrelated attitudes, norms, and behaviors, in
a specific target
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)
Dishman & Buckworth Findings
• Several types of interventions are
commonly used
• Completed comparisons among 7 general
categories of interventions
Types of Individual Interventions
• Behavior modification (r=.91)
• Cognitive behavior modification (r=.10)
• Health education (r=.10)
Types of Individual Interventions
• Health-risk appraisal (r=.10)
• Exercise prescription (r=.21)
• PE curriculum (r=.21)
• Combinations (r=.11)
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
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