What Is Community? An Evidence-Based Definition for Participatory Public Health Flashcards
Theory (Question # 1 For the Quiz)
A set of interrelated concepts, definitions and propositions that presents systematic view of events and situations and how to predict behavior and phenomenon
Good theory
Systematically arranges basic principles and provides a basis of why phenomenon occurs
What do we want from a theory of health behavior? (Question # 4 for Quiz)
Focal points for needs assessment or problem diagnosis; shape intervention strategies and educational messages; Explain, predict behavior and program outcomes: Why? What? How?; Provides a framework for client intake surveys, data collection (What to monitor, measure and compare; help structure program evaluation
Health Belief Model Key Constructs
Perceptions of: susceptibility (How likely of getting a condition) , severity (One’s opinion of how serious a condition is) , benefits (One’s opinion of the advised action) , barriers (One’s opinion of the costs of the advised action) , cues to action (prompts to act) , self-efficacy (One’s level of confidence to take action).
Health Belief Model
Readiness to act is determine by one’s beliefs toward the problem and recommended behavior
7b. What is the underlying concept for the social cognitive theory?
Bandura; emphasis on the role of reinforcement in shaping behavior, but Individual expectations of consequences of behavior also determine behavior
7d. What is the underlying concept for the Theory of planned behavior?
Addresses the problem of incomplete volitional control, intention (separates it from TPB), includes attitudes towards the behavior, subjective norm, but it also has the theme of perceived behavioral control.
7e. What is the underlying concept of the Health belief model?
A value-expectancy theory. According o this class of theory, the tendency to perform a particular act is a function of the expectancy that the act will be followed by certain consequences.
