Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify behaviour that impacts negatively on health and assess readiness for change
- Demonstrate an understanding of social determinants of health and specific influences on individual's behaviour
- Demonstrate an understanding of environmental factors that restrain change
- Identify behavioural health determinants
- Assess motivation, commitment and confidence levels to change attitudes, beliefs and behaviour in collaboration with other team members and or/ stakeholders
- Reinforce positive beliefs and behaviour
- Consider unintended consequences of desired behaviour and incorporate into the plan
- Develop and implement plan for behaviour change
- Factor into the plan the contribution existing organisations and infrastructure can make towards facilitating individual behaviour change
- Fully explore the opportunity for collaborative partnerships to implement the plan
- Identify pro-active strategies to support behavioural change based on behaviour change models, research available and consultations with experts and/or stakeholders
- Document a plan and implement in consultation with the individual involved
- Construct an evaluation plan/strategy in consultation with the individual involved
- Monitor and review progress
- Identify the most appropriate methods of data collection for recording behaviour
- Collect, summarise and review data related to individual behaviour
- Assess changes in behaviour in collaboration with the individual involved and other experts as may be necessary
- Assess effectiveness of plan in collaboration with other experts and/or stakeholders
- Publish and report results of behaviour change strategies in relevant form