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A Children??s Health Belief Model

Medical Care, 1990
The classic Health Belief Model (HBM) was adapted to explain children's expected medicine use for five common health problems. To evaluate this Children's Health Belief Model (CHBM), 270 urban preadolescents, stratified by socioeconomic status, grade level, and sex, and their primary caretakers (93% mothers) were individually interviewed. Analyses were
P J, Bush, R J, Iannotti
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Critique of the health‐belief model

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1983
Health‐related behaviour is an important issue for providers for health care. Understanding and being able to predict and influence health behaviour are all essential if client co‐operation and participation is to be obtained. Since nurses spend more time with patients than any other health care professional, they are in a position to influence health ...
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Religion and the health belief model

Journal of Religion & Health, 1991
This paper reviews the Health Belief Model (HBM) and the Religious Problem-Solving Coping Scale (RPSC) in an attempt to clarify religion's possible roles in health care actions. The HBM has been used for many years to suggest various influences on health care, including religion.
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Unrealistic Optimism and the Health Belief Model

Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2000
Why do people fail to engage in positive behaviors which will promote their health and well-being? Researchers addressing this question adopt primarily one of two perspectives, drawing either on theories of health behavior, such as the Health Belief Model (HBM), or on theories of risk perception, such as unrealistic optimism.
V A, Clarke   +3 more
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Mammography Usage and the Health Belief Model

Health Education Quarterly, 1992
Regular screening mammograms for asymptomatic women are the most effective method for early detection of breast cancer. This study assessed the relative influence of Health Belief Model (HBM) constructs on prior mammography usage and the intention to obtain mammograms with data from a sample of 1,057 women over the age of 35 years residing in an urban ...
J A, Stein   +3 more
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Health Belief Models

The Journal of Physician Assistant Education, 2002
According to Sir William Osler, the Canadian physician and writer: “It is more important to know what sort of patient has a disease, than what sort of disease a patient has.”1 Health care professionals care for people from all walks of life, with all manner of experience and backgrounds.
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The health belief model

2001
© Cambridge University Press 2007.Development of the health belief model (HBM) In the 1950s US public health researchers began developing psychological models designed to enhance the effectiveness of health education programmes (Hochbaum, 1958). Demographic factors such as socio-economic status, gender, ethnicity and age were known to be associated ...
Abraham, Samuel, Sheeran, P.
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Illness Attributions and The Health Belief Model

Health Education Quarterly, 1983
This paper proposes an attributional approach to the traditional Health Belief Model (HBM). It is argued that this approach has two purposes: (1) health beliefs might themselves be determined by attribution and (2) the prediction of health behavior might be sig nificantly improved by combining health beliefs with illness attribu tions.
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Health Beliefs and Breast Cancer Screening in Rural Appalachia: An Evaluation of the Health Belief Model

The Journal of Rural Health, 2016
AbstractPurposeThis study explored the role of the Health Belief Model in predicting breast cancer screening among women in rural Appalachia. Health beliefs (perceived susceptibility to breast cancer, severity of breast cancer, and benefits and barriers to screening) were used to predict health behavior (mammogram frequency).MethodA total of 170 women ...
Santana D, VanDyke, Madelynn D, Shell
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