Behavior Change Theories
Theories' Levels of Influence
Types of Intervention Strategies
Health Promotion Intervention Design
100

Key factors of this theory include perception of susceptibility, severity, benefits, and barriers.

What is the Health Belief Model?

100

Factors addressed at this level include knowledge, skills, beliefs, and attitudes.

What is the Intrapersonal level?

100

These intervention strategies are used to inform and influence people to adopt new health behaviors and include understanding your audience and tailoring your messages.

What are Health Communication Strategies?

100

Selecting and adopting an evidence-based intervention is part of this phase of intervention planning.

What is the Assessment phase?

200

This states that, in part, people's behaviors are influenced by the actions of others.

What is Social Cognitive Theory?

200

Factors at this level include how things are done in the workplace.

What is the Organizational Level?

200

A "teach'back" is one kind of intervention using this strategy to provide information and tools that build capacity for behavior change.

What are Health Education Strategies?

200

Conducting a pre-test of materials is part of this phase of intervention planning.

What is the Preparation phase?

300

This theory states that a person's behavior is influenced by their attitudes towards the behavior, social norms associated with it, and perception about their ability to engage in the behavior.

What is the Theory of Planned Behavior?

300

Factors at this level include family interactions.

What is the Interpersonal Level?

300

Community organizing and community building are interventions grounded in these behavior change strategies.

What are Community Mobilization Strategies?

300

When planning an intervention, this step follows pre-testing and precedes full intervention.

What is piloting an intervention?

400

Also known as the Stages of Change Model, this explains how people move through six stages of change.

What is the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) of Behavior Change?

400

Factors at this level include things like bike helmet laws.

What is the Public Policy Level?

400

Interventions using these strategies improve health outcomes by changing the physical, social or economic context of the community.

What are Environmental Change Strategies?

400

Increased awareness and knowledge are considered this type of objective.

What are Learning Objectives?

500

In this stage of the TTM, people are aware of the benefits of change and concerned about the risks of change, but thinking about taking some action.

What is the Contemplation stage?

500

Factors at this level include physical infrastructure, open space, and housing, among others.

What is the Community Level of Change?

500

Smoke-free apartment building ordinances are examples of this type of intervention strategy.

What are Health Policy Strategies?

500
Enhancing neighborhood street lights is an example of this type of objective.

What are Environmental objectives?