Health Beliefs and Behaviour Flashcards
Definition of Health Behaviour:
any activity undertaken by an individual believing himself to be healthy, for the purpose of preventing disease or detecting it at an asymptomatic stage.
Effectiveness of Education on Health Behaviour
- Effective for discrete behaviour (e.g. getting a vaccine)
* NOT effective on its own for complex behaviours (does not address reasons for poor behaviours)
Definition of Self-Efficacy
belief that one can execute the behaviour required to produce the outcome.
Sources of Self-Efficacy (4)
• Mastery experience
• Social learning (they can do it, I can do it too)
• Verbal persuasion/encouragement
• Physiological arousal
o (Interpretation of physiological symptoms e.g. breathlessness is a sign of good work our or being unfit)
In health belief model: what factors affect perceived threat?
Background variables
Perceived susceptibility
Perceived seriousness
Cues to action
In health belief model: what factors affect likelihood of behaviour?
Perceived benefits
Perceived costs/barriers
Perceived threat
In health belief model: what factors affect Perceived susceptibility
Background variables
In health belief model: what factors affect Perceived seriousness
Background variables
In health belief model: Background variables influences what factors
Perceived susceptibility
Perceived seriousness
Perceived threat
In health belief model: Perceived seriousness influences what factors
Perceived threat
In health belief model: Perceived susceptibility influences what factors
Perceived threat
In health belief model: Cues to action influences what factors
Perceived threat
In health belief model: Perceived threat influences what factors
Likelihood of behaviour
In health belief model: Perceived benefits influences what factors
Likelihood of behaviour
In health belief model: Perceived costs/barriers influences what factors
Likelihood of behaviour
In Theory of planned behaviour: factors that influence attitude towards the behaviour?
Beliefs about outcome
Evaluation of outcome
In Theory of planned behaviour: factors that influence subjective norm?
Beliefs about important others’ attitudes towards behaviour
In Theory of planned behaviour: factors that influence perceived behavioural control?
Internal control factors
External control factors
In Theory of planned behaviour: factors that influence intention?
perceived behavioural control
subjective norm
attitude towards the behaviour
In Theory of planned behaviour: factors that influence behaviour?
perceived behavioural control
intention
In Theory of planned behaviour: perceived behavioural control influences what
Intention
Behaviour
In Theory of planned behaviour: Beliefs about outcome
influences what
Attitude towards behaviour
In Theory of planned behaviour: Evaluation of outcome influences what
Attitude towards behaviour
In Theory of planned behaviour: attitude towards behaviour influences what
Intention
In Theory of planned behaviour: significant others’ attitudes towards behaviour influences what
Subjective norma
What is the premise of the theory of planned behaviour
Behaviour is determined by behavioural intentions- attitude towards the behaviour is based on the expectation value principle.
What is the premise of the health belief model
Likelihood of behaviour change is usually determined with perceptions of threat or benefits and costs of changing.
What is the premise of the transtheoretical model
Change doesn’t happen in a simple 1 step process.
Occurs in a cyclical process.
Often move back and forth before behaviour becomes permanently changed.
What are the 7 stages of the transtheoretical model
Pre-contemplation Contemplation Preparation Action Maintenance Relapse or Exit
Summarise approaches to modify health behaviour? (5)
- Listen and validate patient’s experience
- Identify and remedy any gaps in knowledge
- Identify cues and reinforcers- modify if possible and plan rewards
- Identify and attempt to modify unhelpful beliefs
- Enhance self-efficacy
approaches to modify health behaviour? (5)
- Identify and problem solve barriers to change
- Identify positive, relevant role models
- Encourage social support
- Tailor intervention to individual’s readiness to change
- Motivational interviewing
