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KMID : 0378019830260020160
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New Medical Journal
1983 Volume.26 No. 2 p.160 ~ p.170
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A Review the Literature on Health belief and Health behavior
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Abstract
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Most health programs involve obtaining the cooperation of some clientele (whether they be asymptomatic, experiencing symptoms, or actually sick) : in doing so, each program makes assumptions (explicitly or implicitly) about how and why people behave as they do, and about how that behavior might be modified. Unfortunately, in its review of hundreds of references, we not find a clear-cut conceptual model guiding educational practice in health programs, but rather, a multiplicity of uncoordinated bits of theoretical stances and isolated research findings. Similarly, although a variety of mechanisms are available: which are potentially capable of altering attitudes and actions, these approaches exist without reference to the nature of the benefits or behaviors that are to be modified.
Such specification can only develop from a conceptual or content knowledge of the field. While no one would claim that the Health Belief Model is complete in accounting for all variations in how people behave respect with their health, sufficient evidence has now been amassed to conclude that the model provides a workable theoretical and practical. foundation.
Nurses in expanded roles are in excellent position to utilize theory and empirical knowledge of determinants of health related behavior to help their clients improve their health status. It is encouraging to suggest that nurses are beginning investigate health-related behavior in a variety of ways. By replication of studies we will lead to a better understanding of Health Belief Model, and nurses will be in a better position to facilitate change.
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