What behavioral and/or environmental factors will your intervention attempt to change?

HEDU 3600:  Planning                                 

Assignment: Designing Health Promotion Interventions

Assignment Objective: Create a multi-level intervention for your program using at least 3 of the following intervention strategies:

• Health communication strategies
• Health education strategies
• Health policy/enforcement strategies
• Environmental change strategies
• Health-related community service strategies
• Community mobilization strategies
• Other
  • Behavior modification strategies
  • Organizational culture strategies
  • Incentives and Disincentives
  • Social Activities

(NOTE:  From here on we will consider your intervention to be the same as your program and we will use the two terms interchangeably.)

Instructions

Preparation:  We don’t want you to reinvent the wheel, and we do want you to use evidence-based interventions as models for your program.  Therefore, to prepare for this assignment, review programs related to your health problem that you access from the resources on the attached sheet, Selected Resources for Evidence-Based Prevention Programs.  Identify at least 4 activities/strategies from these programs that you’d like to incorporate into your intervention.  (You don’t have to restrict yourself to these programs.  You can do your own search.  We identified most of these resources by just googling “Evidence-Based Prevention Programs for XXX,” and we just scratched the surface.)

You should be able to relate all the activities/strategies you select to constructs in the theory/model you chose to build your intervention on.  The constructs don’t have to be the 3 you used in your last assignment.  They can be any construct from your theory/model.  (NOTE:  If at this point you realize that the theory/model you selected doesn’t fit the program you’re proposing as well as you thought it would, you can select another that you think fits better.)

If there is an activity/strategy you really want to use as part of your intervention but you can’t find it in any evidenced-based prevention program, talk with your instructor about it.  If you can justify its inclusion, you can probably use it.

The Deliverable:  Once you’ve identified the activities/strategies that you want to use in your intervention provide written answers to the following questions:

1. What behavioral and/or environmental factors will your intervention attempt to change?  Why did you select these factors to focus on? (Bullet points)

1. At what level(s) of prevention will your intervention operate – primary, secondary, or tertiary?  Explain why you say it will operate at that level. (1-2 sentences)

1. List and describe at least 4 activities/strategies that will make-up your intervention.  (If you want to include more than 4 then just make another copy of the chart.)  Be realistic.  Don’t propose activities/strategies that will require a level of resources you won’t have.  For instance, don’t propose mounting a national media campaign for a county project or giving each participant a $500 gym membership.  At least one of your activities/strategies must represent either a health policy or environmental change.

1. Complete the attached Intervention Activities/Strategies Chart.  Begin by filling in the blanks at the top of the chart.  Then populate the columns as indicated below.  (A partially completed chart is attached as an example.)

3. List your activities/strategies. (Note: These activities/strategies should be the same ones you described in #3.)

1. Identify an evidence-based program that has used each activity/strategy.

1. Identify the type of intervention strategy that each activity/strategy represents. Because we want you to develop a multi-level intervention, your program must include activities/strategies that represent at least 3 different types of intervention strategies.

1. Identify the construct(s) in your model that each activity/strategy addresses.

1. Identify the levels of influence at which level each of your activities/strategies operate (i.e.,intrapersonal, interpersonal, organizational, community, or societal)

1. Looking at all the activities/strategies that will comprise your intervention, explain why your program is appropriate for your priority population(s).