Behavior Change

Facilitators and Barriers

Facilitators

• Facilitators support you engaging in your chosen

behavior change
• Ideally, you’d want to maximize facilitators in
order to change behavior
• How can you identify facilitators?
• What factors encourage my behavior
change?

• Example 
Barriers
• We ALL have barriers to behavior change
• Need to recognizing possible stumbling
blocks in advance will help you prepare fully
for change.
• How can you identify barriers?
• What factors discourage my behavior change?

• Example 
Example from the Research

Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Sleep in Adolescents