Lecture 8.2: Behaviour Change & Lay Beliefs Flashcards
What are Lay Beliefs?
Lay beliefs represent an individual’s subjective and informal explanation for the world around them (including explanations relating to health and illness) that do not necessarily have to concur with scientific knowledge
What is Health?
The state of being free from illness or injury
What is Health Behaviour?
Actions undertaken for purpose of maintaining health and preventing illness
What is Illness Behaviour?
Activity undertaken by an ill person to define illness and seek solution
What is Sick Role Behaviour?
Formal response to symptoms, including seeking professional help and actions of the person as a patient
Why are Lay Beliefs so important?
They influence behaviour and compliance with health advice
Cognitive Perceptions of Illness (5 Dimensions)
- Identity: how people identify an illness using
symptoms and a disease label - Cause: beliefs about cause
- Timeline: how long individual beliefs disease will last
- Consequences: outcomes & impacts expected as a
result of the belief - Curability/Controllability: beliefs about whether illness
can be prevented/cured/controlled
Illness Perception Questionnaire
It is a a new method for assessing cognitive representations of illness.
Factors that influence patient decisions (5)
- Knowledge and understanding of medical illness and
interventions - Trust in physician
- Trust in healthcare service
- Experience of illness and medical intervention
- Implications for engaging with health services
Factors effect adherence to treatment/prevention (7)
- Symptom based view of illness
- Cost
- Route of Administration
- Frequency
- Side-Effects
- Beliefs about efficacy
- Beliefs about necessity
What factors affect parents decision to vaccinate children? (3)
- Autism study (false)
- Side-Effects/Allergies
- Belief of economic gain for GPs through vaccination
What factors are perceptions of risk influenced by? (5)
- Fear about how severe damage from a potential
incident could be (“dread factor”) - Vividness of risk
- Frequency at which risk is encountered
- Sense of invulnerability common in population
- Tendency to dismiss low risk as insignificant
What is a Heuristic?
A mental shortcut commonly used to simplify problems and avoid cognitive overload
Behaviour Change Techniques (11)
1) Goal Setting
2) Review of Goals
3) Self Monitoring
4) Self Talk
5) Emotion Control Training
6) Stress Management
7) Action Planning
8) Barrier Identification/Problem Solving
9) Relapse Prevention/Coping Planning
10) Time Management
11) Provision of Feedback
Behaviour Change Models (5)
- Health Belief Model
- Social Cognitive Theory
- Common Sense Self Regulation Model
- Locus of Control Model
- Behavioural Intention Model
