Create a blog using the COM B model to promote behaviour change towards a healthier dietary intake
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Show how YOUR blog meets the AfN Standards of Ethics Conduct and Performance
AIM of the Public Health assignment:
- Develop a communication skill that will be useful within a career as a nutritionist: Write content for the public, focused to a particular group (for example teenagers).
- Consider who would be reading your blog.
- Consider the aim of your blog.
- Ensure you communicate within the AfN Standards of Ethics, Conduct and Performance.
Assess the module learning outcomes of:
Develop practical skills in communication, improved awareness of behaviour change models, formulate ideas and opinions concerning food and nutrition effectively and appropriately.
Be able to integrate knowledge and understanding from a variety of sources to identify or propose solutions to improve health.
Have a good understanding of the Association for Nutrition code of professional ethics and conduct of Nutritionists
“Our registrants contribute to improving the health and wellbeing of the public. A central aspect of registration is that all our registrants demonstrate professionalism and safe, effective practice” AfN Standards of Ethics, Conduct and Performance
“Capability is defined as the individual’s psychological and physical capacity to engage in the activity concerned.
It includes having the necessary knowledge and skills.
Motivation is defined as all those brain processes that energize and direct behaviour, not just goals and conscious decision-making. It includes habitual processes, emotional responding, as well as analytical decision-making.
Opportunity is defined as all the factors that lie outside the individual that make the behaviour possible or prompt it.” Miche et al 2011