HEALTH BEHAVIOR THEORY
An individual's attitude towards his health influences his capacity to maintain an optimum level of health, prevent illness or recover from a disease. Understanding patient's attitude towards his condition is the key to establishing an effective health-related program for health promotion, disease prevention and disease management. Hence, different health behavior theories have emerged. All of these are designed to help the patient and his family to facilitate learning, adjustment and behavior change to improve his quality of life. ( Butts & Rich, 2011)
In addition, health belief models have been developed to determine if the individual is likely to participate in disease-prevention and health-promotion activities. (Kozier & Erb, 2011)
Providing health education is one of the most vital responsibilities of nurses. It can be challenging if the recipients of of our teaching are resistant to behavior change. Aside from establishing mutual goals by the nurse and the patient, different factors have to be taken into consideration before conducting health education classes. Understanding patient’s behavior and attitude towards his condition can be very useful in designing a health program specific to a certain individual.
Attitudes and Beliefs in Compliance with Care. (ANALYZE HOW PATIENT ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS CAN AFFECT COMPLIANCE WITH CARE)
Patient compliance is one of the challenges each health team member faces. A lot of factors can affect patient's attitude towards his health. Lack of knowledge about the disease and its management, lack of social support, lack of adequate finances or health insurance are among others. These factors have negative influence on one's attitude and beliefs towar...
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...veral factors along with demonstrating caring, positive reinforcement if applicable and establishing therapeutic relationship when designing plan of care or even treatment programs would eventually lead to a more satisfying and successful outcome.
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Mr. A is burdened with both of these diseases and he may suffer from further complications in the future do to his condition. Public health education campaigns can inform Mr. A that he is experiencing a pre-contemplation behavioural stage in which he is not aware of a need to change his current lifestyle. As previously stated, the case shows that study Mr. A is not currently living a lifestyle that supports the management of his current health conditions. In conjunction with the transtheoretical theory, health campaigns can inform Mr A about his diagnosed conditions and encourage him to change his habits by understanding the 6 behavioural stages. Although the transtheoretical model of can be beneficial in educating Mr. A’s behaviour. Addition of maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory would yield a better outcome for Mr. A by explaining why he has not currently changed his behaviour. Communities can additionally help to support Mr. A by taking on the role of facilitating, participating, fundraising and volunteering in health promotions. With the amalgamation of the knowledge of behavioural theories, exposure to multimodal education campaigns and communities participating in health education interventions, Mr. A can be informed if his current health
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Aim of this paper is to examine and present the application of social cognition models in the prediction and alternation of health behavior. Social cognition models are used in health practices in order to prevent illness or even improve the health state of the individuals in interest, and protect their possibly current healthy state. This essay is an evaluation of the social cognition models when used to health behaviors. Unfortunately it is impossible to discuss extensively all the models and for this reason we will analyze three of the most representative cognitive models to present an integrated idea of their application.
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The purpose of this paper is to review the theory of self-regulation and how it can be applied to practice in health care settings to improve patient outcomes. According to Johnson (1997), more than 25 years of research has influenced the development of the self-regulation theory, which is about coping with healthcare experiences. Health problems have shifted from acute to chronic where it has been identified that personal behaviors are linked to over half of societies chronic health problems (Ryan & Sawin, 2009). As the modern nurse strives to provide specialized care and improve patient outcomes, the utilization of nursing theory continues to gain importance. This theory explains how patients use specific types of information to cope with health care events thus providing a rational for selecting information that can be expected to benefit patients. The concept of self-regulation has been a part of nursing practice in a circumlocutory fashion for years. It has been most commonly referred to as self-management creating considerable ambiguity and overlapping of definitions for that term and self-regulation (SR). For the purpose of this paper these terms will imply that people follow self-set goals introduced by their health care provider.
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