Assignment: Health Behavior Self Analysis Paper

Assignment: Health Behavior Self Analysis Paper

I hope to learn self discipline over the course of my behavior change. Learning to set positive goals. Learning to boost my self confidence and overall image. I have tried to change my eating habits in the past and while I was successful in shedding the pounds, I was miserable. I restricted certain foods, I wouldn’t eat anything that contained carbs, and I wasn’t working out. I was so unhappy with my body image. I was roughly 120 lbs and thought I was so fat. Looking back on old photos I was clearly delusional. I don’t want to approach this behavior change like I did when I was 19 and fresh out of high school. I have gained a lot of knowledge over the past few years in regards to proper nutrition and what works and doesn’t work for my body. The goal is to focus on eating cleaner, but being happy along the way by setting realistic goals. I have downloaded MyFitnessPal which I will use to track my calories. I believe this is the best and most efficient way to monitor my progress.

Introduction: Knowledge of Canadians’ experiences in making health behaviour changes (HBCs) in general, and among those at risk due to body mass index (BMI), would help inform health promotion / disease prevention programs. Selected self reported HBCs in the past 12 months by BMI category were examined in this secondary analysis of the Canadian Community Health Survey 4.1. These HBCs included increased sports/exercise, weight loss and improved eating habits. Barriers to HBC were also examined.

Methods: Descriptive analyses and forward stepwise logistic regression were completed on data from respondents 18 years and older. Self-reported BMI was corrected by the method of Connor Gorber et al. (2008).

Results: Our final sample was n = 111 449. Overall, 58% of respondents had made an HBC, with increased sports/exercise as the most important HBC in 29% of the sample, followed by improved eating habits (10%) and weight loss (7%). Half (51%) experienced barriers to HBC; lack of will power was most commonly cited, followed by work and family responsibilities. Obese respondents reported HBC more frequently than normal-weight respondents (60% vs. 55%), but the prevalence of increased sports/ exercise and improved eating habits was similar across BMI categories. Regression models accounted for only 6%-10% of the total variance.

Conclusion: That a majority of respondents had made at least one HBC bodes well for positively shifting population health. Additional work to further characterize the population, and to improve on population indicators, is needed to assess the impact of health promotion/disease prevention efforts. These findings provide important first population benchmarks for future work.

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Important information on Writing a Discussion Question

• Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
• There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
• Include in-text citations in your response
• Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
• Follow APA-7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

Participation –replies to your classmates or instructor

• A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
• Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
• Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
• Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
• Follow APA 7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

• Remember to use and follow APA-7th edition for all weekly assignments, discussion questions, and participation points.
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