Achieving Health Behavior Change: Individual and Societal Perspectives

3 credits · School of Nursing

Understanding theories and frameworks that explain and predict why and when individuals modify and maintain health behavior change is critical to advancing clinical care and health outcomes in diverse populations and across diverse settings. This course will review main individual and socio-ecological theories and constructs of health behavior change. This will include review of evidence to support their utility to explain and predict health behavior change, how to influence and integrate theoretical constructs into intervention designs, and assessments of key constructs. Prerequisite: Nursing 909