A public health nurse is planning educational interventions that are based on Becker's Health Belief Model. When identifying the variables that affect local residents' health promotion behaviors, what question should the nurse seek to answer?
A) "Do residents believe that they have ready access to health promotion resources?"
B) "Why have previous attempts at health promotion failed?"
C) "How much funding is available for health promotion in the community?"
D) "Who is available to provide health promotion education in the local area?"
Ans: A
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Barriers, Becker's second variable, are defined as factors leading to unavailability or difficulty in gaining access to a specific health promotion alternative. The other listed questions do not directly relate to the four variables that Becker specified.
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