Health Behavior: The Health Belief Model

Through the above analysis, TPB is considered an appropriate model to explain health behavior and make necessary interventions for smoking cessation. In a recent study, Inger Synnove Moan issued an invitation to smokers so that they involved in his research about smoking cessation. His invitation was widely reported over fifteen newspapers and lasted for a period of ten days. There are 1,438 people involved in research. After 4 months when the questions are sent, there are 1,024 respondents. Through evaluation of the data, Moan noticed that intention to quit smoking has a significant correlation between attitude, perceived behavioral control, and subjective norms (Moan, 2010).The analyses show that there is a combination of three constructs in which the behavioral control are considered as the main predictor. The addition of the perceived susceptibility variable in the model helps to make in predicting the intention of quitting smoking. …show more content…
The HBM is a psychological model of health behavior change aims to explain and predict health behaviors. This model has been used successfully in preventive health programs such as encouraging the use of condoms in preventing the sexual behavior that has a high risk of infection in the community, or using seatbelts, etc. The concepts of this model are “perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, cues of action and self-efficacy.” The concept of cues of action and self-efficacy was added later to “stimulate action” and solve the challenges of unhealthy behaviors such as overeating and smoking