health belief model

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health belief model

a conceptual framework that describes a person's health behavior as an expression of health beliefs. The model was designed to predict a person's health behavior, including the use of health services, and to justify intervention to alter maladaptive health behavior. Components of the model include the person's own perception of susceptibility to a disease or condition, the perceived likelihood of contracting that disease or condition, the perceived severity of the consequences of contracting the condition or the disease, the perceived benefits of care and barriers to preventive behavior, and the internal or external stimuli that result in appropriate health behavior by the person.

health be·lief mod·el

(helth bĕ-lēf modĕl)

A psychological precept that attempts to explain and predict health behaviors by focusing on the attitudes and beliefs of individual patients.

Health Belief Model

HBM

A theory used to explain health-seeking or health-avoiding behavior that is based on the assumption that attitude and belief motivate action. The model proposes that an individual facing health-related decisions weighs: 1. the likelihood that she may be at risk for a disease; 2. the gravity of the disease, were she to succumb to it; 3. the value of making choices that will prevent the illness; 4. the costs or challenges of making those choices. Health-benefiting actions will be taken when: cues/reminders to take that action are delivered to her and she believes that she has the capability to make her efforts count.

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Diabetes self-management module, referred to Health Belief Model approach, was done using reference from various sources and was organized to become six sessions: The first session had the theme of description of DM; the second session had the theme of DM diet; the third session had the theme of physical activities; the fourth session had the theme of diabetes leg gymnastics and diabetes leg nursing care; the fifth session had the theme of the route and the days of illness; and the sixth session had the theme of stress management.

Self-efficacy development model for strengthening quality of life diabetes mellitus patients at Darussalam Puskesmas Medan, Indonesia

A model for nutrition education is the Health Belief Model (HBM).

Nutrition education promoted consumption of pulse based foods among rural women of reproductive age in Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Six concepts of the Health Belief Model in Scale create the six sub-dimensions.

Determination of the Health Belief and Attitude of Women Regarding Breast Cancer and Breast Self-Exam

The second, third, and fourth sessions were also based on the health belief model including training for enhancing sensitivity, severity, and perceived benefits and barriers as well as the internal and external practice guide in terms of self-medication.

Effect of an educational intervention based on the model of health beliefs in self-medication of Iranian mothers/ Efecto de una intervencion educativa basada en el modelo de creencias de salud en la automedicacion de madres iranies/ Efecto de una intervencion educativa basada en el modelo de creencias de salud en la automedicacion de madres Iranies

The expanded health belief model seems to be suitable for prediction of prevention behaviors of osteoporosis in teen girls.

EFFECT OF NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING BASED ON HEALTH BELIEF MODEL FOR OSTEOPOROSIS PREVENTION IN WOMEN: A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

s perceived susceptibility in light of the possible consequences of a sedentary lifestyle, as well as an assessment of possible barriers, as described by the Health Belief Model (HBM).

Athletic trainers and the national health agenda: promoting health behavior change

Using the Health Belief Model, the study sought to examine the correlates of perception of risk of HIV among adolescents living in an urban slum in Ghana.

Perception of risk of HIV among adolescents' living in an urban slum in Ghana

The health belief model (HBM) was initially designed by some psychologists Hochobaum, Rosenstock, and Kegels who worked for the US Public Health Service in 1950s [sup][8] to study "the failure of people to accept disease preventives of screening tests for the early detection of asymptomatic disease.

Parents' Perception and their Decision on their Children's Vaccination Against Seasonal Influenza in Guangzhou

Since the importance of education depends upon its behavioural impact (12), the Health Belief Model was used for increasing the impact of nutrition education in this study.

Nutrition education based on health belief model improves dietary calcium intake among female students of junior high schools

According to the Health Belief Model (HBM), changes in behavior are achieved through changes in knowledge and beliefs (Davidhizar, 1983).

Utilizing the health belief model to assess vaccine acceptance of patients on hemodialysis

The tenets of the Health Belief Model (HBM) were utilized to explore the extent to which causal beliefs about obesity are related to decisions to lose weight.

Inherited or behavior? What causal beliefs about obesity are associated with weight perceptions and decisions to lose weight in a US sample?

A narrative literature review was conducted to assess the application of the health belief model in sickle cell trait screening research.

A Review of the Literature: Use of the Health Belief Model in Sickle Cell Research