Visit this website from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It has a summary of various models from individual and community level behavior change interventions. The descriptions of the constructs of the Health Belief Model are summarized by one sentence depictions.
Read these depictions and explain how these add to your understanding of the HBM.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Summary of HBM
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This website of the Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention defines the Health Belief Model and explains its components with examples. It discusses the application of HBM to sexuality education and presents a research study of its application to adolescent's fertility control.
Review the research study and identify its strengths and weaknesses.
Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (RECAPP)
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This website provides a link to the study conducted by Andrea Toepell (2003) about safer sex choices. All the six constructs of the model have been used in this study to predict condom use behavior prior to incarceration in Canadian prisoners.
Read this study and discuss its findings underscoring its strengths and weaknesses.
The Health Belief Model and Safer Sex: Implications for Women’s Health
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This website links a case study by Butraporn and colleagues (2004) about application of HBM in predicting use of a vaccine for shigellosis, a type of bacillary dysentery, that affects more 1 million people around the world.
Read this article and discuss its findings underscoring the strengths and weaknesses.
The Health Belief Model and Vaccine for Shigellosis
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This website explains the history and basis of the Health Belief Model. There is also an example of the model at work.
Overview of Health Belief Model
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