Halth Beliefs, behaviours and moral approaches

Question 1

How are symptoms perceived?

Answer 1

• intensity/severity
• familiarity
• duration/frequency
• perceived seriousness for present and future
• extent to which symptoms disrupt activities
• tolerance of threshold of exposed person
• availability of treatment (cost, access, proximity)
• cultural understanding/available knowledge

Question 2

What are the 5 health behaviour models?

Answer 2

• health belief model
• theory of planned behaviour
• transtheoretical model
• social cognitive theory
• Leventhal’s self-regulatory theory

Question 3

Why are the health behaviour models useful?

Answer 3

• people respond to symptoms in many ways
• lots of factors determine whether patient seeks medical help
• have power the change people’s health behaviour but must understand current beliefs and understand current behaviours