The HBM & TPB (Bennett, Buchanan, & Adams, 2012)
In this article, Bennett et al illustrated the application of health belief model (HBM) as well as the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to examine the intention to receive the human papilloma virus vaccine (HPV). In the HBM, they measured the variables of susceptibility, severity, benefit, self-efficacy, and cues to action. I agree that HBM will help us to understand the individual attitude toward health-related behaviors such as getting the HPV vaccine. However, why do individual accept or refuse health related behaviors (e.g. vaccine)? They may not have sufficient knowledge about the benefit of vaccine or the severity of illness, or they may believe that vaccine could cause harm to their body …show more content…
Moreover, some individual will perceive barriers against certain health behaviors such as with breast self-exam, she may have difficulty performing or initiate the self-exam correctly. Let us think of decisions that patients make that seem to defy logic? Why do we think he/she has made those specific choices? for instance mother of 16 year old refuses to give her child the HPV vaccine because she believe that her child is not sexually active or she think the vaccine is not safe and can cause harm. Mothers thinks that her child is not sexually active, but is she 100% confidant that her child is not and why she think that HPV vaccine not safe and can cause harm. What approach should the health care provider take to encourage the health behaviors? In this example, health care provider should provide education about HPV and discuss the possible risk associated with not receiving HPV. Furthermore, health care provider should interview the adolescent alone for possible sexual activity and discuss the option of getting the vaccine without mother consent. At the end, it is essential for us as a health care providers to be aware, as we communicate health information, that people often make decision based on how they feel about the …show more content…
The key concepts used and measured in the study are self-efficacy, self-regulation, social support, and outcome expectation related to physical activity. First, self-efficacy has a great impact on physical activity as human ability and attitude toward this healthy behavior and how it can affect their health. People usually like to do what is best for their health and they have a tendency to seek healthy behavior to feel in control of their own health. For instance, a female patients may chooses to use complementary therapies (CT) over conventional treatment to manage her headache and she does not only use (CT) because it safe but also she feel that she can help herself and feel more in control of her health. While self-regulation, it is the person ability to sustain a healthy behavior such as is the patient able to maintain physical activity to reduce his weight, is he going to exercise every day for one hour, or what is he going to do if he could not exercise ( alternative and so on). However, I am curious about is that the authors in the article stated that outcome expectation does not have significant influence on physical activity. I am assuming that the participants are already familiar with the outcome and the benefit of the physical activity, so when they were asked to provide information about it, it found to be insignificant. In the study, the application of SCT have success in changing the social
In this article, Bennett et al illustrated the application of health belief model (HBM) as well as the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to examine the intention to receive the human papilloma virus vaccine (HPV). In the HBM, they measured the variables of susceptibility, severity, benefit, self-efficacy, and cues to action. I agree that HBM will help us to understand the individual attitude toward health-related behaviors such as getting the HPV vaccine. However, why do individual accept or refuse health related behaviors (e.g. vaccine)? They may not have sufficient knowledge about the benefit of vaccine or the severity of illness, or they may believe that vaccine could cause harm to their body …show more content…
Moreover, some individual will perceive barriers against certain health behaviors such as with breast self-exam, she may have difficulty performing or initiate the self-exam correctly. Let us think of decisions that patients make that seem to defy logic? Why do we think he/she has made those specific choices? for instance mother of 16 year old refuses to give her child the HPV vaccine because she believe that her child is not sexually active or she think the vaccine is not safe and can cause harm. Mothers thinks that her child is not sexually active, but is she 100% confidant that her child is not and why she think that HPV vaccine not safe and can cause harm. What approach should the health care provider take to encourage the health behaviors? In this example, health care provider should provide education about HPV and discuss the possible risk associated with not receiving HPV. Furthermore, health care provider should interview the adolescent alone for possible sexual activity and discuss the option of getting the vaccine without mother consent. At the end, it is essential for us as a health care providers to be aware, as we communicate health information, that people often make decision based on how they feel about the …show more content…
The key concepts used and measured in the study are self-efficacy, self-regulation, social support, and outcome expectation related to physical activity. First, self-efficacy has a great impact on physical activity as human ability and attitude toward this healthy behavior and how it can affect their health. People usually like to do what is best for their health and they have a tendency to seek healthy behavior to feel in control of their own health. For instance, a female patients may chooses to use complementary therapies (CT) over conventional treatment to manage her headache and she does not only use (CT) because it safe but also she feel that she can help herself and feel more in control of her health. While self-regulation, it is the person ability to sustain a healthy behavior such as is the patient able to maintain physical activity to reduce his weight, is he going to exercise every day for one hour, or what is he going to do if he could not exercise ( alternative and so on). However, I am curious about is that the authors in the article stated that outcome expectation does not have significant influence on physical activity. I am assuming that the participants are already familiar with the outcome and the benefit of the physical activity, so when they were asked to provide information about it, it found to be insignificant. In the study, the application of SCT have success in changing the social