SSEH2270 Quiz: SSEH2270_ Fear Appeals
5 Dec 2020
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Cairns sexual health service director dr darren russell, who is chair of the government"s new aids advisory committee, said while he hadn"t seen the new commercial, the original grim reaper ad "probably did more harm than good". "in terms of a public health campaign, it was probably a failure," he said. "what we found at the time was a lot of people with very low risk went and got tested while high-risk people were too scared after the ad. " Movement to introduce another format of this ad. Perceptions about susceptibility to, and severity of, an undesirable harm. Triggered by the perception of threatening stimuli (ruiter et al. , Beliefs as to whether a response effectively prevents the threat. (e. g. , i believe condoms prevent hiv contraction ). Belief in your ability to perform the recommended response. (e. g. , i think i can easily use condoms . ) The classic inverted u relationship was postulated for the relationship between fear and attitude/action change.
