Psychology 2990A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, Participaction, Health Promotion

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Haynes

Document Summary

Promoting health literacy: use of skills to critically analyze and apply health info to one"s life. Promoting health literacy: look for, authorship/sources clearly identified, certifications from reputable organizations. Problem: attitudes don"t always predict behaviour, why, disparity between private and publicly expressed opinion, attitude measure not specific enough. Fishbein & azjen"s (1975) theory of planned behaviour: the best predictors of a person"s deliberate behaviours are, their attitudes towards specific behaviours, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control. If you want to ensure that an intervention is effective at modifying people"s behaviour, it"s necessary to address these 3 predictors. Theory of planned behaviour: attitude toward behaviour, based on beliefs that a behaviour will have certain consequences, and evaluations of those consequences as positive or negative. 2 condoms, even if you have a favourite attitude toward using them and you think that other people are using them.