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
