Benefits and susceptibility Flashcards
Why was the health belief model developed? (2)
- to explain why people fail to participate in disease prevention programs
- to explain why people fail to adhere to medical regimes
What did behaviourism suggest about health behaviour? (4)
- learned associations are most important
- outcome affects whether we do something more or less
- behaviour change is more about knowledge and education
- individual characteristics can make you act a certain way, which affects what type of behavioural feedback you get
What are important in the health belief model? (3)
specific beliefs:
- subjective value of an outcome
- expectation that this outcome will occur
According to the health belief model, what will make someone less likely to do something after a negative outcome? (2)
- they believe the outcome is bad
- and they expect the bad outcome is likely to happen to them
What are the types of individual beliefs in the health belief model? (5)
- beliefs about cost of the disease
- belief about benefits of action
- belief about susceptibility to disease
- beliefs about barriers to action
- beliefs about self-efficacy
What are the types of modifying factors in the health belief model? (6)
- age
- gender
- ethnicity
- personality
- socioeconomics
- general knowledge
What are cues to action?
in the health belief model
they are events that precipitate or instigate action
What are beliefs about benefits?
good things that happen if you do act and bad things that happen if you don’t act
How did Ruiz and Bell (2021) measure beliefs about cost of covid?
not directly, but through pre-existing conditions
What did Ruiz and Bell (2021) find when looking at beliefs about costs of covid? (2)
people with 5 or more pre-existing conditions had higher intention to get vaccinated
people with 4 or fewer had no difference between them
What is a problem with Ruiz and Bell’s (2021) study of beliefs about costs of covid?
it is a proxy so doesn’t directly measure their beliefs, just assumes what they would be
What did Yang et al (2022) find when looking at beliefs about the effects of the covid vaccine?
willingness to get the vaccine was higher with beliefs that the vaccine is effective
What did Brewer et al (2007) find in their meta-analysis of vaccine likelihood and how severe people think a disease is?
likelihood of getting a vaccine was higher when an individual believes having the disease was more severe
What is a problem with Brewer et al’s (2007) meta-analysis of vaccine likelihood and how severe people think a disease is?
some of the studies had results going the other way, so the general conclusion can’t apply to all diseases/vaccines
What are beliefs about susceptibility?
beliefs about the likelihood of harm from getting a disease and beliefs about the likelihood of getting a disease in the first place
What did Ruiz and Bell (2021) find when looking at people’s appraisal of covid threat in terms of danger?
intention to get vaccinated was higher for people who believed they were personally more at risk from covid
What did Yang et al (2022) find when looking at people’s appraisal of covid threat in terms of likelihood of catching it?
willingness to get vaccinated was higher for people who believed that they were personally more likely to contract covid
What did Brewer et al (2007) find in their meta analysis when looking at personal susceptibility in disease vaccination?
likelihood of getting vaccinated was higher when people thought they were more generally susceptible to disease and when they thought they were likely to be harmed by contracting a disease
What 3 beliefs did Hochbaum (1958) measure in terms of TB susceptibility?
- they might contract TB
- they cannot rely on only symptoms for detecting the presence of TB
- they would benefit from early detection
What was the best belief to have in Hochbaum’s (1958) study in terms of TB susceptibility? (2)
- you can’t rely on symptoms
- a combination of all 3 is best
What did Ford et al (1996) find in terms of susceptibility after their HIV intervention?
CSWs were more likely to say they maybe would not catch AIDS after the intervention (bad)
