Author Question: Which of the following led to the creation of the Health Belief Model (HBM)? a. Attempting to ... (Read 38 times)

jake · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

Which of the following led to the creation of the Health Belief Model (HBM)?

a. Attempting to create an educational program that people would choose to attend
b. Attempting to explain why people acted as if they were immortal and immune from danger
c. Attempting to understand why people chose unhealthy and high-risk behaviors
d. Attempting to understand why people did not flock to free health care

Question 2

Which of the following needs to be considered when using the Health Belief Model (HBM)?

a. Prior behaviors
b. Perceived benefits
c. Health promoting behaviors
d. Personal benefits

Jayson · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
The HBM was created to explain why people did or did not participate in health education programs to prevent or detect disease, even when the programs were free.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
The HBM is a value expectancy theory that addresses factors that promote health-enhancing behavior. The HBM considers perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, and other sociopsychological and structural variables. Self-efficacy, defined as the notion that an individual can act successfully on a given behavior to produce the desired outcome, was later added to the HBM.