2022 Volume 30 Issue 4 Pages 313-318
Background: The Japan Society of Health Education and Promotion Nutrition Education Committee has been conducting nudge themed activities since 2019. This article summarizes the annual committee workshop held on March 26, 2022, which was titled “A second workshop. How to use nudge for health behavior—the relationships between nudge and health behaviors theories.”
Contents: The workshop was divided into three parts: a seminar by Dr. Masaki Takebayashi, titled, “You can understand nudge at this seminar”; a suggestion by the committee to explore the relationships between nudge and health behavior theories; and group activities for participants, which included making a nudge flyer. There were 63 participants at this workshop. According to a survey about the workshop (57 respondents; response rate: 90%), 98% of the respondents indicated that they were very satisfied or satisfied with the workshop. The reasons given for participant satisfaction included the workshop’s inclusion of the flyer-making group activity and lecturer commentary during group presentations. All the respondents indicated that they would like to continue learning about nudge.
Conclusions: The participants’ understanding of nudge was deepened by workshop attendance. We suggest that by combining theory with practice, the workshop resulted in new findings and enhanced the participants’ motivation for learning.
