Proposed Intervention Strategies

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Health communication strategies are well known for the successful use of multidimensional methods in order to spread knowledge and awareness of a health concern as well as influence behaviors and attitudes towards a particular health issue. The strategy is considered to have the highest depth rate of effectiveness and is the most cost efficient when compared to other strategies. “NO body is perfect, but EVERY body is beautiful” will use comprehensive communication interventions and messages that will ultimately protect the priority population’s health outcomes, which will include print educational material, phone help hotline, and electronic mass media. Educational pamphlets will be readily available and accessible to schools, grocery stores, shopping malls, libraries, churches, and health care facilities throughout the entire community. The print materials will also include matrix barcodes (QR codes) that will contain more extensive information about anorexia nervosa (AN) as well as direct viewers to the program’s social networking outlets. Before one will accept an identification of anorexia nervosa and actively make a behavior change, one must believe that one can have the condition without evident symptoms. These educational materials are part of the perceived susceptibility construct of the Health Belief Model (HBM), with the purpose to raise awareness and communicate to the priority population as well as to the community that anorexia is a potentially life-threatening issue amongst young women. The program planners will also establish social networking websites including as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, in order to influence all audiences about the eating disorder as well as provide ...

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...y of fruits and vegetables comprising of dark green and red/orange vegetables and legumes, as well as proteins and whole grains according to the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Strict limitations on saturated fat, portion size, age-appropriate calorie intake, larger serving sizes of vegetables and fruits will also be implemented in the new nutrition standards. Both health polices/enforcement strategies and environmental change strategies relate to the perceived barriers construct of the HBM, as the student’s opinion of the total costs, both tangible and psychological, of the recommended behavior change removal of the environmental barriers will help the student to be more likely to take action towards a healthy eating lifestyle. By the last day of school one out of five adolescent females will initiate a positive change in their household’s eating habits.

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