The main factors of forming health belief
1. Perceived disease susceptibility: it is the sensitivity of an individual to the possibility that his behavior will damage his health or get sick.
2. Perception of disease threat: it is the individual's expectation of dangerous consequences.
3. Perceived benefits: Taking action can bring benefits.
4. Perceptual barriers: the cost and difficulty of taking action.
5. Action clues: action strategies to achieve behavior change. Awareness of susceptibility and serious consequences can make individuals feel threatened, but they also need to know how to act.
6. Self-efficacy: People with high self-efficacy are more likely to adopt suggestions and implement healthy behavior changes. By providing training and guidance, personal self-efficacy will be improved.
General steps of applying health belief model to health intervention
1. Make people afraid of their behaviors that are harmful to health.
2. Make people firmly believe that once they get rid of this harmful behavior and take corresponding health-promoting behavior, they will get valuable results, and at the same time, they will clearly realize the difficulties that may be encountered in the process of behavior change.
3. Let people have confidence in changing behavior.