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Becker - AIM?

Health belief model

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Use the health belief model to test mothers’ compliance to a drug regime for their child with asthma

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Becker - BACKGROUND?

Health belief model

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Rosenstock (1966)
To explain why people failed to participate in preventative campaigns for Tuberculosis (using cognitive explanations)
Individual and situational factors = less reductionist
6 elements:
-perceived threat / seriousness / susceptibility
-cost-benefit analysis
-internal/external cues
-demographic variables

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Becker - SAMPLE?

Health belief model

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111 mothers (17-54 years)
Children aged 9 months to 17 years
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Becker - METHOD?

Health belief model

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Self report
Correlation between beliefs and compliance with asthma medication
Covert blood test (70%) - confirm validity

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Becker - PROCEDURE?

Health belief model

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Each mother interviewed about their perception of:
-susceptibility (of child to illness)
-seriousness (of asthma)
-inconvenience (how much asthma interfered with life)
-effectiveness of doctors and medicine
Child given covert blood test (70%)

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Becker - RESULTS?

Health belief model

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Blood tests showed 66% compliance

Supports the health belief model - mothers who feared their child was vulnerable = more likely to comply

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Becker - CONCLUSIONS?

Health belief model

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The Health Belief Model is useful at predicting and explaining levels of compliance of a medical regime

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Becker - EVALUATION?

Health belief model

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Individual differences - socio-demographic variables
Holistic - cognitive and social factors
Ignores irrational factors - people aren’t always logical
Not all health behaviours are a rational decision (brushing teeth is a habit)
Low validity - interviews (social bias)
Ethics - covert blood sample of children BUT improves concurrent validity
Reductionist - ignores how adherence will change with age
Correlation - no cause and effect (psychology science) BUT collected quantitative and qualitative data
Useful - can target specific groups for closer monitoring

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Rotter - BACKGROUND?

Locus of control

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The location an individual places their control over events - internal (they control) or external (outside their control)
Determines whether an individual will seek out healthy lifestyles
3 dimensions:
-internality: extent of internal/external perceived control
-chance: belief that external factors (eg chance) influences health
-powerful others: belief in the control of health professionals

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Rotter - AIM?

Locus of control

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To test if a reward is more effective if a person believes it was the result of themselves (internal) or other factors (external)

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Rotter - SAMPLE?

Locus of control

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6 pieces of research about an individual’s perception of how they can control an outcome

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Rotter - RESULTS?

Locus of control

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Participants who felt they had control - more likely to cope with potential threats
Smokers who gave up smoking (and didn’t relapse) had a higher level of internal locus of control

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Rotter - CONCLUSIONS?

Locus of control

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Locus of Control affects many of our behaviours

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Rotter - EVALUATION?

Locus of control

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Deterministic - human behaviour influenced by reinforcement
Ecological validity low - artificial task
Doesn’t have any health related tasks/ill patients so results can’t be generalised to health behaviour

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Bandura - BACKGROUND?

Self Efficacy

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Developed (by Bandura) from internal locus of control
If we think we can succeed (cope with a threat) we work harder = more likely to succeed
Belief (affects perception and motivation) you can perform well in a situation
More confident = more likely to succeed
4 influences:
-Persuasory: positive feedback
-Enactive: past experiences (eg GCSEs)
-Emotive: mental state (eg anxiety)
-Vicarious: comparing ourselves to others (eg friend)

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Bandura - AIM?

Self Efficacy

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Assess the self efficacy of patients engaging in systematic desensitisation for snake phobias

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Bandura - SAMPLE?

Self Efficacy

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10 snake phobic patients (9 female, 1 male)

Mean age: 31

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Bandura - METHOD?

Self Efficacy

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Quasi (level of fear)

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Bandura - PROCEDURE?

Self Efficacy

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Level of fear and perception of how well they’d do was measured
Relaxation exercises
Systematic desensitisation:
-shown photos of snakes
-once arousal levels fall, put in same room as snake
-eventually able to handle them
Fear and perception of how well they’d do measured again

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Bandura - RESULTS?

Self Efficacy

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Second fear score (after systematic desensitisation) were lower.
Coping perception higher

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Bandura - CONCLUSIONS?

Self Efficacy

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Systematic desensitisation works.
Supports self efficacy
Self efficacy is cognitive (perception affects behaviour) and behavioural (perception is learned from past experiences - nothing happening with snake)

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Bandura - EVALUATION?

Self Efficacy

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Lab experiment - high control and can test cause and effect
Nature/nurture - self efficacy influenced by personality and environment
Useful - can be applied to disorders
Low ecological validity

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Keating - BACKGROUND?

Media campaigns

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Get health messages across (TV adverts, posters)
Allow people the choice to choose healthy behaviours
Legislation more authoritarian - prevents people acting unhealthy

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Keating - AIM?

Media campaigns

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Assess how effective the VISION mass media campaign was at increasing awareness and preventing HIV/AIDS

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Keating - SAMPLE?

Media campaigns

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3278 (15-49yrs)
3 Nigerian States
60% married

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Keating - METHOD?

Media campaigns

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Self report

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Keating - PROCEDURE?

Media campaigns

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Interviewed by questionnaire
Asked about family planning, sexual activity and exposure to media campaign
Asked 3 closed questions:
-have you talked to a partner about ways of preventing AIDS?
-does condom usage reduce chances of getting AIDS?
-did you use a condom last time?

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Keating - RESULTS?

Media campaigns

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Exposure to media campaign was high
Women most exposed to adverts in clinic
Men to radio adverts
-1.5x more likely to have discussed HIV/AIDS
-2x more likely to know that condoms reduce risk of HIV/AIDS
-No affect on condom usage

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Keating - CONCLUSIONS?

Media campaigns

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VISION increased awareness/understanding of HIV/AIDS
Different media reaches different people
No affect on condom usage - didn’t know where to get them (include in future campaigns)

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Wakefield - BACKGROUND?

Legislation

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Authorities create enforceable rules that inhibit or promote health behaviours
Requires effective enforcement
More authoritarian than media campaigns

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Wakefield - AIM?

Legislation

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Compare effectiveness of smoking restrictions - home bans, school bans and legal bans

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Wakefield - SAMPLE?

Legislation

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17287 high school students
202 schools in USA
80% of selected students completed the questionnaire

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Wakefield - METHOD?

Legislation

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Self report

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Wakefield - PROCEDURE?

Legislation

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Asked if adults at home smoke
If smoking banned at home, school (how well enforced) and in public places
Sorted into 6 categories:
-non susceptible non smokers
-susceptible non smokers
-early experimenters
-advanced experimenters
-established smokers
-current smokers
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Wakefield - RESULTS?

Legislation

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Not developing a smoking habit was linked to home bans (parent restrictions), school bans and public bans
Home bans more effective than legal or school bans
11% reduction in smoking uptake due to school bans (still effective)

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Wakefield - CONCLUSIONS?

Legislation

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Consistent with other research
Parental opposition reduced uptake of teen smoking
Legal restrictions and school bans less effective

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Ruiter - BACKGROUND?

Fear arousal

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Fear arousal used in many health promotion campaigns

Increase emotional tension so that individual must change their behaviour to reduce the tension

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Ruiter - AIM?

Fear arousal

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Examine effect of fear arousal on attitudes towards taking part in early detection for breast cancer

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Ruiter - SAMPLE?

Fear arousal

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88 female undergraduates (1st year)
University in the Netherlands
Mean age: 20
Volunteer sample

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Ruiter - METHOD?

Fear arousal

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Lab
Independent measures:
-low/mild fear
-strong/weak argument

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Ruiter - PROCEDURE?

Fear arousal

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Questionnaire - asses pre-experimental attitude to breast self-examination
Effectiveness of several educational messages about breast cancer (low or mild fear) evaluated
Read a persuasive message about performing monthly breast exam checks (weak or strong argument)
Questionnaire to assess post-experimental attitude
Fear - level of implied severity
Random allocation to 2x2 condition

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Ruiter - RESULTS?

Fear arousal

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Low effectiveness of manipulated fear
Argument strength was more effective
Argument based messages more effective than fear

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Ruiter - CONCLUSIONS?

Fear arousal

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Evoked fear causes people to have more argument based processing
Only applicable to breast self examination - not all health detection

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Bulpitt - BACKGROUND?

Reasons for non-adherence

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Valid reasons not to adhere:

  • don’t believe treatment is working
  • unpleasant side effects
  • confused about how much to take
  • too expensive
  • withdraw to ‘see if the illness is still there’
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Bulpitt - AIM?

Reasons for non-adherence

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Review research on adherence to hypertensive (high blood pressure) medication

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Bulpitt - METHOD?

Reasons for non-adherence

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Review article of research identifying problems with taking medication

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Bulpitt - PROCEDURE?

Reasons for non-adherence

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Statistical analysis of physical and psychological effects of adherence

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Bulpitt - RESULTS?

Reasons for non-adherence

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15% dropped out due to side effects:
-sleepiness
-dizziness
-lack of sexual functioning
-lower cognitive functioning
8% dropped out due to sexual problems
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Bulpitt - CONCLUSIONS?

Reasons for non-adherence

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When the cost of taking the medication outweigh the perceived benefits there is less likelihood of the patient adhering

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Lustman - BACKGROUND?

Measures of adherence

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Ways to measure adherence:

  • self report - asking patient about how compliant they have been
  • health worker estimates - asking a doctor to ‘guesstimate’ how complient the patient is
  • biochemical tests - blood and urine tests
  • pill and bottle counts - number of pills left compared to how many here should be
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Lustman - AIM?

Measures of adherence

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See if there’s a link between depression and non-adherence to diabetic medication

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Lustman - SAMPLE?

Measures of adherence

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60 diabetic patients with depression

Volunteer sample

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Lustman - METHOD?

Measures of adherence

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Randomised double blind study

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Lustman - PROCEDURE?

Measures of adherence

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Patients randomly assigned to fluoxetine (depression treatment) or placebo (double blind)
Depression assessed using psychometric tests
Adherence assessed through blood sugar levels

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Lustman - RESULTS?

Measures of adherence

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After 8 weeks:
-Fluoxetine group had healthier blood glucose levels (adherence) and
lower levels of depression
-Less depression (fluoxetine) = more regularly monitored blood glucose levels

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Lustman - CONCLUSIONS?

Measures of adherence

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Measuring blood sugar levels in patients with diabetes indicates adherence
Less depression = greater adherence
Not being anxious or depressed improves compliance

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Watt - BACKGROUND?

Improving adherence

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Non adherence:

  • can be fatal
  • expensive
  • wasted medication
  • require follow up measures
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Watt - AIM?

Improving adherence

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To see if funhaler improves children’s adherence to asthma medication

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Watt - SAMPLE?

Improving adherence

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32 Australian children (10m and 22f)

Asthmatic

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Watt - PROCEDURE?

Improving adherence

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Repeated measures:
-normal ‘breath-a-tech’
-funhaler
Each used for 1 week and parent answers questionnaire

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Watt - RESULTS?

Improving adherence

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Adherence to asthma medication increases by 38% using the funhaler than the breath-a-tech’

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Watt - CONCLUSIONS?

Improving adherence

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Previous research suggests forgetfulness and boredom influenced non-adherence
Funhaler solves this and encourages correct usage of the inhaler with a spinner and whistle
Making the medical regime fun can improve adherence in children