How effective are educational appeals in changing attitudes toward health behaviors?
For this to be effective, it has to be noticed in the first place. Educational appeals provide people with the facts and arguments on why it is important to engage in some health behaviors. By implementing these educational appeals, you must be able to translate it in a way where it can grab that person’s attention and help them understand it. For example, those smoking/vaping commercials that come on from “Truth”, they use interactive ways to showcase what smoking and vaping can do to your lungs. This can immediately grab a person’s attention. Setting it straight believe it or not, can sometimes persuade an audience to change their attitude towards the health behavior they are engaging in.
