Goal Setting: A Strategy for Reducing Health Disparities

The Healthy Rewards study tested the effectiveness of goal setting to encourage behavior change in Latino and African American adults in three northern California counties. Four groups of adults were alternately assigned to receive either 1) basic health promotion and nutrition education without goa...

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Published inJournal of extension Vol. 49; no. 2
Main Authors Young, Tara D, Barrett, Gloria J, Martin, Anna C, Metz, Diane L, Kaiser, Lucia L, Steinberg, Francene M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Extension Journal, Inc 01.04.2011
Subjects
African Americans
Behavior Change
Behavior Modification
California
Change Strategies
Community Education
Control Groups
Experimental Groups
Extension Education
Goal Orientation
Health Promotion
Hispanic Americans
Nutrition
Nutrition Instruction
Program Descriptions
Program Effectiveness
Rewards
California
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Summary:The Healthy Rewards study tested the effectiveness of goal setting to encourage behavior change in Latino and African American adults in three northern California counties. Four groups of adults were alternately assigned to receive either 1) basic health promotion and nutrition education without goal setting (control) or 2) the same education with personal goal setting. Participants (n = 31) attended four 2-hour weekly sessions over 1 month. While the community-based education was effective in promoting participant behavior change overall, the goal-setting groups reported even greater change than groups who did not engage in goal setting. (Contains 1 figure and 2 tables.)
ISSN:1077-5315
0022-0140
1077-5315
DOI:10.34068/joe.49.02.20