Health Psychology - Block 8

Question 1

What is health psychology

Answer 1

Is devoted to understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy , why they become ill , and how they respond to Illness .

Question 2

What is health behaviour

Answer 2

Is any activity people perform to maintain or improve their health regardless of their perceived health status or whether the behaviour actually achieves that goal .

Question 3

Health behaviours divided into 2 categories …?

Answer 3

1- health protective or health enhancing behaviours

2- health compromising behaviours

Question 4

Why are diseases and disabilities important ?

Answer 4

2 reasons : 1- they lower life expectancy
2- they also lower life quality .

Disease mortality - behaviour - quality of life

Question 5

Why study health behaviours ?

Answer 5

1- treatment protocols involve behaviours
2- changing profile of major causes of mortality
3- Rising medical costs
4- Ageing population in many developed countries

Question 6

2 specific health beliefs /cognitions

Answer 6

1- self efficacy

2- leventhal’s Commonsense model of illness perception

Question 7

What is self efficacy ?

Answer 7

People’s beliefs in their capability to exercise some measure of control over their own functioning and over environmental events .

Question 8

Fear can lead to 2 competing responses …

Answer 8

1- self protective behaviours (I.e. Attitude , intention and behaviour changes )
2- defensive responses

Question 9

Using self efficacy in practice

Answer 9

1 - use role models to demonstrate how certain behaviours are done
2- mastery through practice /reherseals

Question 10

Leventhal’s model or illness representation

Answer 10

1- identity 
2- timeline 
3- consequence 
4- cause 
5- Control

Question 11

Predicting and changing health behaviours

Answer 11

1- health belief model

2- Theory of planned behaviour

Question 12

Health belief model

Answer 12

Perceived benefits minus perceived barriers and perceived threat influence the likelihood of the preventative action .

Question 13

Theory of planned behaviour

Answer 13

Attitude - social norm and perceived behavioural control and intention lead to behaviour

Question 14

What is the COM-B model

Answer 14

1- capability (can the person do it )
2- opportunity ( are there situations for the person to do it )
3 - motivation ( does the person want to do it ?