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Title: Health Behaviors Assessment


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Health Behaviors Assessment
Facilitating Student Success
  • WHAT IS THE HBA?
  • The HBA is an Internet-based self-reporting
    instrument that measures three areas of health
    behavior eating behavior, physical activity, and
    personal management skill.
  • It is used to provide an individual student
    assessment and target potential behaviors for
    positive change.
  • The HBA is useful as a screening device to
    identify the needs of student cohorts and assist
    institutional planning activities.
  • The HBA also includes a measure that indicates
    student awareness and readiness to make personal
    improvements.
  • Since the HBA measures specific behaviors,
    anchored by a time dimension, it can evaluate
    individual and group changes.
  • The HBA has been developed by sampling over
    2,200 students. An additional 260 students have
    received pre-test and post-test evaluations to
    measure their progress after interventions.

A TOOL FOR ASSESSMENT, INTERVENTION, OUTCOME
  • The HBA has been used as an assessment and
    evaluation tool for interventions and outcome
    research. Examples are
  • A peer-mentored intervention to improve personal
    health enhancement of college freshmen has
    demonstrated significant improvements on 14 out
    of 19 HBA variables as compared to an education
    only intervention.
  • Research establishing how health behaviors of
    college students are associated with their
    academic success outcomes.
  • Normative HBA profiles have been developed of
    baseline health behaviors among college freshmen
    at their first semester (N1,286).

HOW DO STUDENTS LEARN FROM THE HBA?
HBA Profile Example
II. Eating Behavior II. Eating Behavior II. Eating Behavior II. Eating Behavior
Category - Foods that should be consumed often Meeting recommendation Close, but not meeting recommendation Not meeting recommendation
Fruits and Vegetables v
Whole Grains v v
Low-Fat or Fat-Free Dairy v v v

Category - Foods to use in moderation or sparingly Low Consumption Moderate Consumption High Consumption
High Fat Foods v v
Caffeinated Beverage v v v
Regular Pop/Soda v
Sweetened Beverage v
Alcoholic Beverage v v v
  • Upon completion of the inventory, the student
    receives immediate feedback on an individual
    profile. The individual profile feedback
    compares the students results with established
    criterion standards into three possible
    categories
  • - Meeting recommendation
  • - Close, but not meeting recommendation
  • - Not meeting recommendation
  • Follow-up resources include classroom healthy
    behavior presentation, resource website, and
    individualized intervention.

K-CAT is a non-profit organization that
distributes instruments designed to provide
screening, feedback, diagnostic input, and
outcome evaluation for specific areas of student
performance. For more information, visit
www.k-cat.org or call 785.532.3875
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