The Health Belief Model And Transtheoretical Model

The health behavior theories are designed to understand habits of human actions in which enable health professionals to focus on assessing means to promote positive behavioral changes (Glanz, Rimer, & Viswanath, 2015). The ability to understand certain factors in human behavior, such as how they think, where they live, what they need, and why people do what they do are all the necessary information to consider when desiring to improve behavior health. The absence of behavior theories across intervention studies will not be able to explain many of the actions of people, which will defer ceasing an epidemic of diseases like HIV. Therefore, Health Belief Model (HBM) and Transtheoretical Model (TTM) are constructed to address health behavioral changes and the level

Likewise, they are used to predict, understand, and impact how an individual may embark the needed changes to advert health crisis (Glanz et al., 2015). Moreover, both models aim to focus on attitudes towards self-efficacy to consider the belief stages needed to make those necessary steps to change bad habits to good habits (Glanz et al., 2015). On the contrast, HBM and TTM difference lies in how it is used that affects behavioral changes being a categorical intervention to apply certain discretion (Glanz et al., 2015). For instance, the HBM difference focuses on perceived thoughts that shift towards cognitive awareness (Glanz et al., 2015). In the ability to consider how the process concerning an individual’s’ health might change based on the acquired knowledge (Glanz et al., 2015). Moreover, the action needed to account for considering the illnesses and the perceived action to resist the disease through susceptibility, severity, benefit, and the barriers to activating cues to action in the threat to reduce the illness (Glanz et al.,