In the health belief model, whether to adopt healthy behavior is related to the following factors:
⑴ Perception of threat: Perception of disease threat includes perception of disease susceptibility and perception of disease severity. A high awareness of the susceptibility and severity of diseases, that is, a high awareness of the threat of diseases, is the direct cause of people's behavioral motives.
⑵ Perceiving the benefits and obstacles of healthy behavior: The stronger the individual's perception of the benefits of healthy behavior, the smaller the obstacles to adopting healthy behavior, and the greater the possibility of adopting healthy behavior.
⑶ Self-efficacy: It is a factor later added to the health belief model, emphasizing the role of self-confidence in producing behavior.
⑷ Induced behavior: refers to the factors that induce healthy behavior, such as mass media propaganda on disease prevention and control, doctors' advice on taking healthy behavior, family members or friends suffering from this disease, etc. It can be used as an inducement to induce individuals to adopt healthy behaviors. The more suggestive factors, the more likely individuals are to adopt healthy behaviors.
(5) Socio-demographic factors: including individual characteristics, such as age, gender, nationality, personality characteristics, social class, peer influence, individual's understanding of disease and health, etc. People with health care knowledge are more likely to adopt healthy behaviors. For different types of health behaviors, people with different ages, genders and personality characteristics have different possibilities to take behaviors.