health models Flashcards
what are social cognitions?
Beliefs, attitudes and knowledge towards a health behaviour.
What are the two different types of social cognition models?
Continuum and stage models
people are likely to perform a behaviour based on their position on a continuum what is this?
Continuum model
people move through stages towards behaviour, what is this?
Stage model
Example of a continuum model
Theory of planned behaviour (Azjen 1990) and Health Belief Model (Rosenstock 1966, Becker 1977)
Example of a stage model
Transtheoretical Model (diclemente & prochaska (1983)
What are the components in Health belief model (Rosenstock, 1966 and Becker, 1977)
Perceived susceptibility Perceived severity Perceived barriers Perceived benefits Cues to action Health Motivation Demographic variables Psychological characteristic
What is perceived susceptibility?
How likely an individual is to get a disease
most powerful component of changing health behaviours
what is perceived severity?
individuals beliefs of the seriousness of the disease
what is Perceived barriers?
Individuals opinion of the obstacles in the way of adopting new health behaviours
What is Perceived benefit?
Individuals opinion of how useful the new health behaviour is in decreasing the old health behaviour
What are cues to action?
Cues of action are people events or things that move people to change their behaviour
What is the underlying concept of the original health belief model?
is that health behaviour is determined by personal beliefs or perceptions about disease and the strategies available to decrease it occurrence
Each of the four main HBM dimensions produced a statistically significant correlation with vaccination behaviours who said this?
Aho (1979)
Found barriers, benefits and susceptibility were good predictors of health however severity was not who said this?
janz & becker (1984)
found four therapy based interventions drawing upon the effective sue of HBM on increased mammographs by an average of 23% compared to usual care who said this?
yasbroff & mandelblatt (1999)