Health belief

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

Education on health behaviour

Answer 2

Effective for discrete, not for complex

Must combine with support

Question 3

Seld efficacy

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Outcome efficacy

Answer 4

individuals expectation that the behaviour will lead to a particular outcome

Question 5

Sources of self efficacy

Answer 5

· Physiological arousal

· Social learning

· Mastery experience à i.e. past experience

· Verbal persuasion OR encouragement

Question 6

Health belief model

Answer 6

Background variable(age, sex, ethnicity, prior knowledge) impact perceived benefits and costs and perceived suscpetibilthy and seriousness. This and cues to action impact perceived threat which impact likelihood of behavioural change

Question 7

Planned behaviour

Answer 7

Belief and eval of outcome affect attitude towards behaviour. Belief about important others’ attitude towads behaviour impacts social norm. Internal and external affect perceived behavioural control. These affect intention and then behaviour.

Question 8

Transtheroretical model

Answer 8

· There are 6 stages in the transtheoretical model:

o Precontemplation

o Contemplation

o Determination

o Action

o Relapse

o Maintenance

· You can exit and re-enter at any stage