1b Health Beliefs and Behaviour

Question 1

Define health behaviour.

Answer 1

Any activity undertaken by an individual believing himself to be healthy, for the purpose of preventing disease or detecting it at an asymptomatic stage

Question 2

What is the Expectancy-Value model?

Answer 2

Potential for behaviour to occur is to do with:  EXPECTANCY that the behaviour will lead to a particular outcome  VALUE of that outcome

Question 3

What is self-efficacy?

Answer 3

Belief that one can execute the behaviour required to produce the outcome

Question 4

What are the four sources of self-efficacy?

Answer 4

Mastery experience

Social learning

Verbal persuasion and encouragement

Physiological arousal

Question 5

Draw the health beliefs model

Answer 5

Question 6

Draw the theory of planned behaviour model.

Answer 6

Planned behaviour model

Question 7

What are the stages of the transtheoretical model?

Answer 7

PCDARM Precontemplation Contemplation Determination Action Relapse Maintenance NOTE: you can enter and leave at any stage

Question 8

What does the health belief model aim to explain and predict?

Answer 8

Likelihood of someone making health behaviour change is determined by 1) perceived susceptibility to adverse outcomes and 2) the perceived severity of the outcomes/ benefits and barriers to making a change