NUTR 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Health Belief Model, The Heart Truth, Osteoporosis
17 Apr 2016
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Developed to explain why individuals didn"t participate in programs re: diseases. Involved into studying behaviours in response to diagnosed illness. Belief about changes of getting adverse health conditions (ex. hypertension, cancer) Belief about how serious a illness and its consequences are. Belief in ef cacy of advised action to decrease risk of getting the disease or seriousness of the consequences of the disease. Good things could happen if i take preventative action. Belief about costs of advised action (ex. time, expensive, impact school work) Strategies to activate readiness (intervention; cues that stimulate you do something such as be physically active) Internal cue example: not tting into your clothes, genetics, bad back (pain) External cue example: (deals with environment) media, resources, seeing a family member get diagnosed with a disease. National campaign about heart disease that speci cally focuses on women. Teaches them about risk factors for heart disease (ex. smoking, sedentary, etc. )
