HBM

Health Belief Model

Health Belief Model

The health belief model was developed in year 1950 and it was the part of effort b y the psychologist in US public health service in order to explain the lack of public participation in the health screening and prevention program for example free and conveniently located tuberculosis screening projects. The HBM has adapted to explore the different variety of the short and long term health behaviour, including sexual risk behaviour and the transmission of HIV/ AIDS. However, the key variables of HBM are considered to be as follows.

Perceived Threat

It consists of the two parts first susceptibility and second one is perceived severity of the health condition.

Perceived Susceptibility

Perceived Severity

Data Gap

This is to believe that provision of the health education through the programmers of patient involvement focus on the patient empowerment and self efficacy (Pearson, et.al, 2003). Furthermore, the psychological based approach has addressing the dysfunctional beliefs such as modifying emotional response to the health condition and focus on its intervention (Ogden et.al, 2002).

The research has been explore that there is variety of health behaviour in the diverse population such as

Influenza inoculations

Screening of high blood pressure

Nutrition

Exercise

Smoking cessation

Seatbelt usage

Self examination of breast

HIV/ AIDS

General population

Adolescents

Sexual risk behaviour

Adolescents

Homosexual; men

Pregnant women

Recent studies has suggested that there is an individual ability to successfully carryout the health strategy such as using of condom regularly which create a great influence on his or her ability of decision making to enact and sustain a changed behaviour (Workowski & Berman, 2007).

Limitations

The general limitation of HBM has includes are as follows

Majority of HBM based research has incorporate that there are only several components of the HBM that does not testing by the model as whole.

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