Theory Application
Paper Assignment Instructions
Throughout this course, you will complete 3 Theory Application Paper Assignments that will demonstrate the application of a
theoretical behavioral construct to a particular health problem. This
assignment will be scaffolded and submitted in 3 separate stages all building
toward the Theory Application Paper: Final Submission Assignment.
The purpose of
this assignment is to provide you with experience in applying theory to
real-life outcomes by incorporating accepted theoretical constructs to program
development. Specifically, you will select a public health problem that impacts
a designated priority population and use the PRECEDE model to build a
frame to support an intervention to address it. Your intervention must incorporate 1 or
2 behavioral constructs in an attempt to control or mitigate the
problem. You will follow this with recommendations of measures to improve
public health policy or practice in order to promote and sustain
efforts and positive outcomes. At the end of your paper, you will provide a
reference list of at least 10, current, professional sources used in the creation
of the paper.
Instructions
Include
a title page (title of paper, name of assignment, your name, course number and
name, date, and word count) for each installment. Save each as a Word file or
PDF and upload it to Canvas at the link provided. You will submit the final
version of your paper to Turnitin, a plagiarism-checking
tool.
Theory Application Paper: Topic and References Assignment
Select a public health
problem and a specific priority population affected by that problem that
can be addressed by an application of health behavior theory. Name a behavioral
program intervention strategy you could use to address it.
Identify a theoretical construct you could use in the
behavioral intervention to mitigate or ameliorate the problem. You may choose
any construct from your course text or other recognized source, such as the National Cancer
Institute’s Behavioral Research Program list of “Constructs and Measures for Health
Behavior” listed under the Theory Application Paper: Topics and
References Resoure heading in the assignment page. Do not use a whole
theory in your approach.
List at least 10, current,
professional references (with a minimum of 6 peer-reviewed journal articles and
no more than 4 government or professional reports) as sources for
your paper. Newspaper and magazine articles, NGO fact sheets, and
proprietary webpages may provide some helpful ideas, but they cannot replace
any of the peer-reviewed or professional sources. Use current AMA guidelines
for the paper, including overall formatting and citation.
Include a separate title page
(title of paper, name of assignment, your name, course number and name, date,
and word count). Save your work as a Word document or PDF and upload it to
Canvas.