A patient needs to make a health-related behavior change, and the nurse using the health beliefs model is working with the perceived severity factor. Which action by the nurse is most appropriate?
a. Assist the patient to identify the benefits associated with the wanted change.
b. Help the patient determine the barriers that prevent changing this behavior.
c. Illustrate some of the consequences of not changing the selected behavior.
d. Inform the patient about the morbidity associated with current behavior.
C
Illustrating some of the consequences of not changing the selected behavior relates to perceived severity.
Assisting the patient to identify the benefits associated with the wanted change relates to perceived benefits.
Helping the patient determine the barriers that prevent changing health-related behavior relates to perceived barriers.
Informing the patient about the morbidity associated with current behavior relates to susceptibility.
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