1B. Health Beliefs and Behaviour Flashcards
Define “health behaviour”
Activity undertaken by someone BELIEVING self to be healthy…
…to PREVENT disease…
…or DETECT it early
What is Health Education useful for?
Discrete behaviours eg getting child vaccinated
Why is Health Education not helpful for complex behaviours?
Does not address reasons for bad health behaviours
Define “self-efficacy”
Beliefe that one CAN execute behaviour to produce outocme
Recall the 4 sources of self-efficacy
Mastery Experience
Encouragement
Social Learning
Physiological arousal
Recall the 6 stages of the transtheoretical model
Precontemplation Contemplation Determination Action Relapse Maintenance
What does the “Health Belief Model” assess?
Likelihood of a behaviour
What are the elements directly affecting the likelihood of a behaviour in the Health Belief Model?
Perceived threat
Perceived benefit
Perceived cost/ barriers
Recall the elements that influence the perceived threat of a health behaviour in the Health Belief Model
Perceived susceptibility
Perceived seriousness
Cues to action
What might affect an individual’s perception of their susceptibility to or the seriousness of a health problem?
Background variables sich as age/ sex/ personality/ ethnicity
What are the 3 drivers of intention in the Theory of planned behaviour?
- Attitude towards the behaviour
- Subjective norm
- Perceived behavioural control
What does an individual’s beliefs about the importance of other’s opinions affect in the Theory Of Planned Behaviour?
The subjective norm
