NBSS: (behaviour) Health Related Behaviours, Beliefs and Attitudes Flashcards
What is preventable mortality?
Deaths that can be mainly avoided through effective public health and primary prevention interventions
What is treatable mortality?
Deaths that can be mainly avoided through timely and effective healthcare interventions, including secondary prevention and treatment
What is avoidable mortality?
Deaths defined as either preventable or treatable
What are health behaviours?
actions taken by individuals that affect health or mortality.
These actions may be intentional or unintentional.
Health behaviours can be either?
- Enhancing
- Compromising
Are health behaviours independent or dependent?
Health behaviours are:
- Independent
(e.g. can abstain from smoking but cannot exercise) - Unstable over time
what are 2 cognitive theories that explain promoting/preventative behaviour
- Health Belief Model
- Theory of Planned Behaviour
What are the 5 determinants of health behaviour?
- Cognitive factors (beliefs, attitude)
- Social factors
- Emotional factors
- Symptoms
- Reinforcement value
What is the health belief model?
influenced by percieved severity/ threat
What is theory of planned behaviour?
Starts with the premise that someones intention is the strongest predictor of their future behaviour.
What is the COM-B theoretical framework?
James has high cholesterol and has been recommended by his doctor to change his diet. According to the Health Belief Model, what factor will most strongly influence whether James will attempt to change his diet?
A: Their causal beliefs about the medical problem
B: Their necessity beliefs about the recommendation
C: Their perceived severity of the medical problem
D: Their perceived control over the behaviour
C
A systematic review of fear appeal research concluded that:
A: Fear tactics are the most appropriate strategy to promote healthy behaviour
B: Presenting coping information that increases perceptions of response effectiveness may be more effective in promoting healthy behaviour than presenting fear arousing stimuli
C: No conclusions could be made concerning the effectiveness of fear tactics in promoting healthy behaviour
D: None of these
B
a 17 year old woman attend for her first asthma review, her peak flow is poort and you suspect poor adherence. which of the following is most likely to improve her adherence
a) explore medication beliefs
b) involve her parents
c) prescribe an alternative medication regime
d) provide an information leaflet
e) warn her of the consequences of her non-adherence
a
