Applying Instructional Design Guidelines for Community Health Programs in Health Education

Abstract

Community health programs promote healthy lifestyles and wellbeing. Numerous models and theories have been developed that support these programs; however, health educators are faced with how to implement these models and specific teaching approaches. Instructional design (ID) provides guidance on making these decisions, guidelines which can be customized for the field. This chapter provides four design guidelines to assist health educators to incorporate program models and theories and appropriate teaching models. Guideline 1 prioritizes the selection of learning outcomes before the choice of supporting models or theories in order to keep the needs of individuals, groups, and communities at the forefront. Guideline 2 customizes instructional design guidelines across the ID process. Guideline 3 raises an awareness of the full scope of teaching using Gagné's events of instruction. Guideline 4 suggests teaching models appropriate to the individual, interpersonal, and community levels of health education programs.

Factors Predicting the Physical Activity Behavior based on Theory of Reasoned Action among Chronic Low Back Pain of the Patients Referring to Comprehensive Health Service Centers in the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran

“…The results of the present study are completely in the line of theoretical assumptions of the theory of reasoned action (Adams & Shambaugh, 2019).On the other hand, Attitude means the overall feeling of like or dislike toward any given PA behavior (Ajzen, 2011;Thiel et al, 2020). In Carvalho's study, people who did not have a good attitude toward physical activity prevented their physical activity (Carvalho et al, 2017).…”

“…Subjective norm refers to one's belief that most of the significant others in one's life think one should or should not perform the PA behavior (Adams & Shambaugh, 2019).…”

Factors Predicting the Physical Activity Behavior based on Theory of Reasoned Action among Chronic Low Back Pain of the Patients Referring to Comprehensive Health Service Centers in the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran.

“…Subjective norm refers to one's belief that most of the signi cant others in one's life think one should or should not perform the PA behavior (Adams & Shambaugh, 2019). The results of the present study are completely in the line of theoretical assumptions of the theory of reasoned action (Adams & Shambaugh, 2019).On the other hand, Attitude means the overall feeling of like or dislike toward any given PA behavior (Ajzen, 2011;Thiel et al, 2020).…”