1. Supporting and Maintaining Behavior Change

2. What do we mean by supporting and maintaining behavior changes? Supporting behavior change Maintaining behavior change

3. What types of behavior changes need to be supported and maintained ? One-time changes Repeated, but finite changes Permanent lifestyle changes Situational changes

4. What are barriers to taking action and changing behavior? The change is impossible, as the situation stands The change is too complex The change is too hard to expect people to be able to accomplish on their own The change takes too much time The change is not important enough for the target population engage in it The target population forgets to perform the action that the change requires

5. How do you address barriers to action and support behavior change? Try to do something about the issues that make a change impossible. Simplify a complex task as much as possible Provide support to people accomplish a change. Try to cut down the time of a change Try to change the population's perceptions about a change. Institutionalize reminders

6. What are barriers to maintaining behavior change? The behavior change has unsatisfactory consequences The behavior change has excessive negative consequences Important people provide negative feedback Control over the new behavior is less than expected

7. How do you address barriers to maintaining behavior change? Try to anticipate and plan for potential problems and issues Honesty is not just the best policy - it's the only policy you should consider.