Health Status: Asthma is known as a chronic respiratory disease that affects the lungs. According to the information provided in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the estimated incidence of asthma in the United States is 16.3 / 1000 of the population. The prevalence data increased between from 2001 to 2010 from 7.3% to 8.4%. It is scientifically proved that half of the population of the United States that has asthma it is caused by smoking tobacco or exposure to tobacco smoke.
Population: Based on the statistics, in the United States the population with a higher risk of patients of asthma are children. They have higher risk to get asthma because they are exposed to tobacco smoke from their parents such as second hand smoke and …show more content…
Based on research it is known that 70% of all cases of asthma are caused by smoking or smoke exposure as a second or third hand. According with the results children has a higher risk to develop the disease than adults. According to the CDC, Asthma has increased rapidly from 2001 to 2010. However, there is a solution in order to prevent this disease. Parents should take action such as quit smoking and focus more on their children future.
Name of Model: TPB- Theory of Planned Behavior, it is known as an intrapersonal level model that practices the expectancy-value theory that it relates with a behavior. In other words, people use this model in order to predict someone’s intention to participate in a behavior. This model includes several constructs such as belief of consequences, evaluation of consequences, normative beliefs, motivation to comply, control beliefs, and perceived …show more content…
Normative Beliefs: An individual’s perception of what people who are important to them think about the behavior. (What I think they think)
Goal: To increase an individual’s awareness of what those important to them think when it comes to smoking cessation.
Intervention: with this intervention, it is necessary to collect information about what their relatives or their important people think about smoking cessation. After obtaining their responses, it is important to show smokers especially parents and pregnant women what they were their responses. The responses can be recorded; if we show the responses to the smokers, some of them might change their way of think because they will know how they are affecting their relatives.
4. Motivation to Comply: An individual’s value placed on what they think of the normative beliefs on the behavior
Goal: Increase an individual’s motivation to comply with the thoughts of those important to them in regards of smoking cessation.
Intervention: at this time we can make the smokers conscious of what the thoughts of their closest people are. We can use them to influence them and motivate them to quit smoking. During this intervention we can mentioned pros and cons of quitting smoking, on the pro side it is important to mentioned that it has more benefits than the cons and that I can be a benefits not only for them but for the people they
Population: Based on the statistics, in the United States the population with a higher risk of patients of asthma are children. They have higher risk to get asthma because they are exposed to tobacco smoke from their parents such as second hand smoke and …show more content…
Based on research it is known that 70% of all cases of asthma are caused by smoking or smoke exposure as a second or third hand. According with the results children has a higher risk to develop the disease than adults. According to the CDC, Asthma has increased rapidly from 2001 to 2010. However, there is a solution in order to prevent this disease. Parents should take action such as quit smoking and focus more on their children future.
Name of Model: TPB- Theory of Planned Behavior, it is known as an intrapersonal level model that practices the expectancy-value theory that it relates with a behavior. In other words, people use this model in order to predict someone’s intention to participate in a behavior. This model includes several constructs such as belief of consequences, evaluation of consequences, normative beliefs, motivation to comply, control beliefs, and perceived …show more content…
Normative Beliefs: An individual’s perception of what people who are important to them think about the behavior. (What I think they think)
Goal: To increase an individual’s awareness of what those important to them think when it comes to smoking cessation.
Intervention: with this intervention, it is necessary to collect information about what their relatives or their important people think about smoking cessation. After obtaining their responses, it is important to show smokers especially parents and pregnant women what they were their responses. The responses can be recorded; if we show the responses to the smokers, some of them might change their way of think because they will know how they are affecting their relatives.
4. Motivation to Comply: An individual’s value placed on what they think of the normative beliefs on the behavior
Goal: Increase an individual’s motivation to comply with the thoughts of those important to them in regards of smoking cessation.
Intervention: at this time we can make the smokers conscious of what the thoughts of their closest people are. We can use them to influence them and motivate them to quit smoking. During this intervention we can mentioned pros and cons of quitting smoking, on the pro side it is important to mentioned that it has more benefits than the cons and that I can be a benefits not only for them but for the people they