Essays on Health Belief Model

Background of the Study

The problem of HIV and AIDS has become a global one in the short time since the identification of the virus. Although there is no vaccine to protect against the virus, knowledge and education are two powerful shields against infection—and it has become clear in recent years that impoverished women in the developing world are particularly heavily impacted by HIV transmission and development of AIDS (UNAIDS, 2016). The goal of finding a way to slow or completely halt the spread of HIV and the development of AIDS has been an epidemiological conundrum for many years. Promoting health and ...

Article Review: “Attitudes and Health Beliefs Associated With Breast Cancer Screening Behaviors Among Turkish Women”

The title ‘Attitudes and health beliefs associated with breast cancer screening behaviors among Turkish women’ seems fit for the article because it clearly and concisely indicates the key element of the study. From the title, a reader can understand that this article will explore the health norms and attitudes of Turkish women about breast cancer screening approaches. However, the title does not include the population sample considered for the study. Actually, the population sample was comprised of 1,342 Turkish women but it was not mentioned in the title. In total, the title is sufficient enough to give readers ...

A lot of recent medical articles have been written on problematic issues in the context of relations between physicians and patients, nurses and health care consumers. As for the hemodialysis procedure, frequency of treatments depends on the kidney failure stage, but in many cases three times a week are prescribed. Thus, dialysis sessions become a part of patients’ daily life and unfortunately different reports show that the level of non-adherence is very high. Factors which contribute to non-adherence in hemodialysis patients vary significantly and depend on individuality of a patient. It is difficult to analyze all off of them ...

Introduction:

In addition to the physiological factors, there are a number of psychological factors that play a major role on musculoskeletal pain that can lead to disability. After the patient has healed from the physiological factors that led to the experience of pain, there are still fear avoidance beliefs that can take the form of chronic pain in the mind, so that the patient resists increases in physical activity levels. Ironically, the decision to reduce physical activity levels in response to this combination of physical pain and psychological fears keeps the back pain chronic, as the patient never overcomes the ...

Health Belief Model

In the past century, many health-based models have been developed and implemented in order to help nursing professionals to identify and incorporate key factors in improving patient-centric services and health outcomes. The Health Belief Model (HBM) is one such model that is associated with the psychological and health behavioural change model associated to change and predict health-related behaviours. The HBM was developed to be incorporated and adopted by healthcare services (Dardis MR, Koharchik LS, Dukes S. 2015). The HBM was developed by key psychologists in 1950 in the US. It is one of accepted theories in the US with ...