Question

Read scenario and describe:

1. Why improving the target behaviour is important

2. How you would measure the target behaviour?

3. What would you classify improvement in that behaviour as?

Scenario

An intervention to improve the proportion of general practitioners providing weight management services to their patients. General practitioners will be provided education about different weight management programs for different population groups, including why it is important, and also about medications, exercises and behavioural assistance for obesity and weight control available to their patients.

Answer 1

Q. No. 1. Answer :

* Improving target behavior is important for this scenario.

Because Target behavior is a response by its effect on the person or the environment.

Here the people are having obesity, it leads to so may complications like heart diseases, diabetes, and other problems.

So weight management practices are very important which are provided by the general practitioners.

Through improving target behavior we can get positive behavioral changes and maintain the good healthy life styles.

By reducing complications.

Q. No. 2. Answer :

* Target behavior is abservable, measurable, and repeatable.

* Through behavior analysis we can measure the target behavior.

* By including some of the fundamental properties like

- Repeatablility,

- Temporal extent,

- Temporal Locus,

By using these three properties we can measures the Target behavior of people.

Q. No. 3. Answer :

We can classify that improvement in that behavior as

* Positive behavioral change

* aAnd negative behavioral changes.