Health Promotion Flashcards
1. Strategies for promoting health 2. health promotion in schools, work and communities 3. individual factors in changing health beliefs
Strategies for Promoting Health
- Fear Arousal (Janis and Feshbach, Cowpe)
- Yale Model of Communication
- Providing Information (Lewin)
Fear Arousal (Janis and Feshbach) Strategies for Promoting Health
Fear arousal is the most effective way to change people’s behavior but it is possible to scare people too much so that they do not take the message aboard
too much fear—> ignore message
Fear Arousal (Cowpe) Strategies for Promoting Health
Health education campaigns are an effective measure of health promotion
Cowpe Study Aim
Aim: investigate the effectiveness of advertising campaigns in warning people about chip-pan fires
- 10 UK regional TV areas
- chip pan fires were a leading cause of domestic fires in the UK
- was costing the government a lot to deploy emergency teams
Janis and Feshbach Study Aim
Aim: to test if level of fear would have behavioral consequences to teeth brushing
How fear arousal works
lets people know bad things will happen unless they change their ways
Cowpe Study Result and Conclusion
Result: net decline in each area over a 12 month period (7%-25% decline)
-largest reduction was during the running time of the campaign
CON- effectiveness of the campaign passes away after a while
Janis and Feshbach Study Procedure
Procedure: compared high fear, medium fear and low fear presentations of info about dental hygiene and control group who received a presentation on eye function
Janis and Feshbach Study Participants
Participants: 50 high school students
Janis and Feshbach Study Results
- greatest impact- high fear group
- 70% worried about tooth decay (42% increase after watching the film) - low fear group
- 46% worried (24% increase after watching the film) - Change in habit
- high fear: 28%
- low fear: 50%
Janis and Feshbach Study Conclusion
although the students in the high fear group had greater emotional reaction, they had less behavior change
on one hand, the message arousing strong fear elicited the most favorable appraisals of communication
minimal fear + proper instruction - most effective
Issues with Janis and Feshbach’s study
The students in the low fear presentation group were given comprehensive instructions on dental hygiene
“specific/ practical” instructions
Yerkes Dodson Law of Arousal
each individual has an optimal level of arousal
-over arousal reduces the effectiveness of any programme-
Yale Model of Communication
Strategies for Promoting Health
there are several factors that will affect how likely a person is to change their behavior in response to a cue in the environment
3 Aspects of Communication
YMC
- communicator
- credible source - communication
- perceived threat (YDLoA) - audience
- demography
Application of Yale Model of Communication
- signpost strategies to help with marketing campaigns to change patient’s behavior
- as prevention is better, the YMC will be effective in encouraging patients to live healthier lives