Health Belief Model And Precaution Adoption Process Model

In this report it will investigate at least three recent health education campaigns and use them to explain two models of behaviour change. The three recent health education campaigns will be ‘Smoke Free’, ‘Change4Life’ and ‘FRANK’. The two models of behaviour change will be the theory of reasoned action and the stages of change model.

The Health Belief Model is the model I have selected to guide me through the internship. In the Health Belief Model there is the assumption that people will take responsibility and action if they believe that their health issues is possible to address, they have a positive outlook on the proposed plan of action, and if the person believes they are able to take the proposed action. The levels of the Health Belief Model go step by step with how people process their logic of the health issue they are faced with. Taking obesity in children. If the child or parent takes an assessment of how likely they are to get the perceived issue of obesity is perceived susceptibility.

The Health Belief Model (HBM) of health behaviour change was originally developed in the 1950s in order to understand and explain why vaccination and screening programs being implemented at the time were not meeting with success (Edberg 2007). It was later extended to account for preventive health actions and illness behaviours (Roden 2004). Succinctly, it suggests that behaviour change is influenced by an individuals’ assessment of the benefits and achievability of the change versus the cost of it (Naidoo and Wills 2000).

The healthy belief method was demonstrated with this study. The study demonstrated that the impact of health beliefs on behavior showed a direct relationship between health

The transtheoretical model helps explain the patient’s behavior change related to the health aspects. As per this change agent, the patient’s purposeful behavior change consists of the cognitive and the performance-based elements. The five stages of the model are precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and the maintenance stage (Virginia Tech Continuing & Professional Education, n.d.).

The Transtheoretical Model is a theory of health behavior that suggests that behavior change is a process, not an event. There are five stages of change someone can go through while attempting to engage in positive behavior: precontemplation, no intention to act within six months; contemplation, intention to act within six months; preparation, intention to act within the next thirty days along with some behavioral steps; action, changed behavior for less than six months, maintenance, changed behavior for more than six months; termination, end of the behavior. These stages are not linear, so an individual can move up and down the stages of change indiscriminately.

The transtheoretical model is the concept that behavior change is a process that occurs in stages, while the precaution adoption process is the concept of the deliberate action you take that can prevent poor behavior. The transtheoretical model can change people by therapeutic or by self-change, which is similar to the precaution model in which the goal is achieved by thinking or talking through actions to prevent any mistakes. It has five stages which include precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance. The PAPM has seven stages which is unawareness, unengaged, deciding not to act or deciding to act, action planning, acting and maintenance. Both theories that will be discussed have contrasts: the transtheoretical model has precontemplation which is when they may not know or be misinformed, while the precaution model has a concept of unawareness, which is when people do know the risks they are associated with the behavior.

Conner and Norman, 1995 describe the health belief model as ‘the oldest and most widely used model in health psychology’. It originated in the 50’s and was developed further by Hochbaum, Rosenstock and Kegals throughout the 1980’s for health education programmes and to predict different health behaviours and responses to treatments. The four terms that are the basis for the HBM are perceived susceptibility, perceived barriers, perceived severity and perceived benefits. The behaviour of the individual depends on their belief that they are susceptible to a health problem, how serious they deem it to be, whether they think that treatment will benefit them and if there are barriers that may get in the way.

This theory is one of the first theory that emerged in solving health related behaviour. It attempts to anticipate and explain the behavioural effects on an individual’s health. The theory is driven by the attitude and the beliefs of the individuals. HBM is a good model to for informing people about the negative consequences of health related behaviour.

There is three different theories social cognitive theory , health belief model , and the stages of change model ;. Unfortunately, though there is just one that stands out the most o me and that’s the stages of change model ; social cognitive is a frame wok too understanding population health and has a lot to do with confidence , health belief model is a belief to improve the consuming of things such as using condoms because of certain diseases, this helps us take action into believing certain things like stds will happen and how do we be aware of how not to get

The Health Belief Model is an archetypal pattern used to evaluate or influence an individual’s behavioral changes in regard to a particular health condition.

Out of the many theories,only some have been mentioned below which are cognitive and non

The health belief model is a model in psychology that tends to explain human health related behaviours. The model explains why certain sets of people are vulnerable to health risk behaviour while others are not. The model explains that the attitude and individual belief about a particular health related activities predict their behaviour toward such activities. The model was first developed by a social psychologist Hochbaun Rosentock and Kegel in the 1950’s when they are working in United States public health service. The model suggests that people's belief about health problems, perceived benefit actions and barriers to action and self-efficacy explain engagement or disengagement in health promoting behaviour.

The health belief model tried to explain the impact of an individual's perception and attitude toward a disease and how those perceptions and attitudes impacted their health-related decision-making. The health belief model is a great tool for nurses, offering a way to help patients prevent chronic disease or, if disease is present, improve quality of life. The health belief model contended that when a person believes that he / she is vulnerable to a health problem with grave repercussions, he/she will more likely agree that the benefits outweigh the stumbling block

The health belief model tried to explain the impact of an individual's perception and attitude toward a disease and how those perceptions and attitudes impacted their health-related decision-making. The health belief model is a great tool for nurses, offering a way to help patients prevent chronic disease or, if disease is present, improve quality of life. The health belief model contended that when a person believes that he / she is vulnerable to a health problem with grave repercussions, he/she will more likely agree that the benefits outweigh the stumbling block related with changing one's behavior to prevent the problem. Nurses can use this model to explain a patients' awareness of risk and why they behave in a way that is harmful. This can enable a nurse to apply a program that can influence patients to make healthy lifestyle changes. (Kennedy, K. 2003).