Health beliefs and behaviour

Question 1

What is health behaviour?

Answer 1

Any activity undertaken by an individual believing himself/herself to be healthy for the purpose of preventing disease or detecting it at an asymptomatic stage

Question 2

When is education effective and ineffective on health behaviour?

Answer 2

It is effective for discrete behaviour- vaccines for kids
It is ineffective for complex behaviours as it doesn’t address the reasons for poor health behaviour- needs to combined with individualised support, as well as economic, environmental and regulatory support

Question 3

What was the Nutbeam (1993) study on and what did it show?

Answer 3

Study on the effect of smoking education in schools

Smoking education increased knowledge but had no effect on behaviour

Question 4

What is self efficacy?

Answer 4

Belief that one can execute the behaviour required to produce the outcome

Question 5

What are the sources of self-efficacy?

Answer 5

Mastery experience
Social learning
Verbal persuasion or encouragement
Physiological arousal

Question 6

What are the 6 stages in the transtheoretical model?

Answer 6

Precontemplation
Contemplation
Determination
Action
Relapse
Maintenance
(You can exit and re-enter at any stage)