nursing diary writing:health behaviour change diary entry
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Assessment 2 - Health Behaviour Change Diary. Task Description: Students are to keep a health behavior change diary using the template provided in the ‘assessments folder’ on the Moodle site. In this diary, students are to: · · Document a key health behavior that they wish to change (i.e. weight loss, increasing exercise levels, quitting smoking, cutting down on alcohol intake); · · Document goals in relation to achieving the behaviour you wish to change, as per the template; · · Write down the pros versus the cons of changing the behavior (a costs/benefits analysis); · · Document the impact of the behaviour on your health and lifestyle; · · Measure and record your progress on a weekly basis to achieving your change goal; · · At the end of the change period, document a reflective piece (incorporating literature and other resources) on your change journey (1500 words). In this, you are to reflect on how you can use your intern-ship work experience.TRANSCRIPT
Document a key health behaviour in a Diary Health Behaviour I wish to Change. A reflection on my health behaviour change journey
targeted towards achieving and maintaining weight reduction.
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Abstract
Fortunately, I was always well-aware of the benefits of eating healthy diet and
exercising regularly. However, sustained commitment towards adopting the healthier lifestyle
was lacking, termed self-liberation in the literature (Romain 2014, p. 262). Of course, there
were numerous short-term, intangible costs associated with my changed lifestyle–unable to eat
my favourite food, inability to spend quality time with my friends in my favourite restaurant
over dinner almost every alternate day, an abrupt end to binge drinking parties during the
weekends, eating a relatively bland diet rich in dietary fibres, forced to walk at least 2 miles a
day irrespective of competing priorities, drinking plentiful of water irrespective of whether I
am thirsty or not and thus staying optimally hydrated, to name a few. However, I was able to
gradually offset most of these short-term costs by adopting the change management process
through counter-conditioning (substituting the behaviours that are undesirable), helping
relationships (seeking support from the community), reinforcement management (rewarding
myself on a regular-basis for implementing the change process successfully), self-liberation
(embarking on this change journey and remaining committed to the change process), and
stimulus control (removing all direct and indirect incentives for unhealthy habits). Notably, my
approach was evidence-informed (Stumpf 2013, p. 24).
