We discussed different health behaviors and the influence they can have on overall health and wellness.
For your project I want you to select a health behavior that is relevant to you and your lifestyle. Your goal is going to be to formulate a hypothesis regarding what outcomes you can create if you modify this health behavior. You will use literature/research to help you formulate this hypothesis. For the first week we will work on increasing self-awareness-you will monitor and track your behavior without implementing any type of change. Following this baseline week, you will work on implementing some type of change, tracking this change, and also tracking your identified outcome. Track anywhere between 2 and 3 weeks. Compile your data and determine if you supported your hypothesis. Additionally, what are some observations that you made regarding triggers, variables that may have promoted or hindered your progress. Can this end up being a sustainable life-style change?
Examples of health behaviors:
Examples of tracking methods:
Outcomes: **you will need to decide how this will be measured
Literature:
Use the library database to find relevant research for your health behavior of choice and health outcomes. Use this literature to formulate a hypothesis regarding your behavior change and possible outcome. You will need at least 4 sources, 2 of which should be empirical research articles.
What is an annotated bibliography:
Instructions:
Example:
Junco, R. (2012). Too much face and not enough books: The relationship between multiple
indices of Facebook use and academic performance. Computers in Human Behavior, 28,
187-198.
Example paragraph summary:
This study extends on the literature examining the relationship between using Facebook and academic performance by measuring how much time is spent on Facebook and how much time is spent engaging in activities on Facebook and their relation to GPA. College students enrolled in a 4-year university in the northeastern region of the United Stated completed a survey (N = 1,839). Students reported how much time they spent daily on Facebook and the average number of times they check Facebook on a daily basis. They were then asked to report, on a Likert scale, how frequently they engaged in various activates on Facebook. GPA was obtained through academic records. Results showed that the amount of time spent on Facebook and the number of times it was checked was negatively correlated with GPA. In conclusion the more time they spent on Facebook and the more times they checked it, the lower their GPAs. However, checking it was not as detrimental to GPA as the amount of time spent on it. This study is important to our research for a couple of reasons, 1) it only examines how Facebook use is related GPA, and it would be important to know how other platforms are related to GPA, and 2) it does not ask about using Facebook for news as one of the activities.
