Health Belief Model

Health Belief Model

Introduction

Since its inception in the fifties, the Health Belief Model or HBM has become one of the most commonly used theoretical frameworks in health psychology to explain health behaviors and prevention of disease. It is an inspiring model that considers cognitive behaviors such as results of all internal beliefs and values that the subject brings to a given situation (Dalal & Misra, 2011). Although the number of investigations that this model generates is considerable even today many conflicting results question its validity explanatory, highlighting the lack of correspondence found between a subject's beliefs and health-related behavior. This ...