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
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.
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