The Health Belief Model and Compliance with Education Given at a Class in Breast Self-Examination

The power of the Health Belief Model (HBM) to explain decisions to adopt preventive health behavior has been mainly supported by empirical studies in which data on beliefs and behavior were collected at the same time. Studies in which information on beliefs was collected before behavior are less com...

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Published in:Journal of health and social behavior 1984-06, Vol.25 (2), p.198-210
Main Authors: Calnan, Michael W., Moss, Susan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitude to Health
Breast
Breast cancer
Discriminants
Diseases
Female
Female/Females (see also Woman)
Group pressure
Health/Healthy
Humans
Medical practice
Middle Aged
Palpation - methods
Patient Compliance
Patient Education as Topic
Self examination
Social behavior
Statistical significance
Womens health
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Summary:The power of the Health Belief Model (HBM) to explain decisions to adopt preventive health behavior has been mainly supported by empirical studies in which data on beliefs and behavior were collected at the same time. Studies in which information on beliefs was collected before behavior are less common and are less supportive. The analysis presented here is based on a prospective study examining how far the HBM predicts (a) attendance at a class in breast self-examination (BSE) and (b) compliance with the education given at the class. Results from the analyses show that some dimensions of health beliefs were found to be among the best predictors of attendance. However, a large amount of the variance in both sets of analyses remained unexplained suggesting that the HBM has limited value for explaining compliance with a class in BSE.
ISSN:0022-1465
DOI:10.2307/2136669