Health Sciences 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Angina Pectoris, Consciousness Raising, Health Promotion

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Lecture 5 readings: health behavior change and risk motivation. Likelihood that an individual will engage in health risk behavior depends upon how much he/she is convinced that healthy behaviors will prevent risk, and he degree to which he/she perceives the benefits will outweigh the costs. In sct, relationship between behavior, person and environment is interactive. The transtheoretical model (ttm: refers to the confidence an individual has in his or her own ability to successfully carry out a behavior. Individual with low self-efficacy is likely to have lowers expectations of successfully performing the behavior and be more affected by situational temptations that are counterproductive to promoting and maintaining behavior change. Consciousness raising finding and learning new facts, ideas, and tips that support the healthy behavior change. Dramatic relief experiencing the negative emotions (fear, anxiety, worry) that go along with unhealthy behavioral risks. Self-reevaluation realizing that the behavior change is an important part of one"s identity as a person.

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