Lay Health Beliefs

Question 0

Components of LHBs?

Answer 0

• Culture
• Gender
• Norms
• Values
• Beliefs
• Attitudes
• Personal and familial experiences
• Socioeconomic status

Question 1

What are LHBs?

Answer 1

Non medically qualified health beliefs

Question 2

Importance of LHBs for clinicians?

Answer 2

• Understanding how individuals construct their beliefs and interpret their symptoms
• Having dialogue where LHBs are acknowledged (and if necessary, deconstructed)

Question 3

Blaxter (1990) suggested what?

Answer 3

• Class, age and gender are crucial in making LHBs

Question 4

What is the Attribution Theory?

Answer 4

• (Heider 1958)
• We have a tendency to see our world as predictable and controllable and are along several continuum’s:
  - Internal vs Externality
  - Stability vs Instability
  - Controllability vs Uncontrollability