scholarly journals Critiquing the Health Belief Model and Sexual Risk Behaviours among Adolescents: A Narrative Review of Familial and Peer Influence

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Michael C.T. O’Dwyer ◽  
Tinashe Dune ◽  
John Bidewell ◽  
Pranee Liamputtong
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Infections ◽  
Health Belief Model ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Health Belief ◽  
Parental Relationships ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Belief Model ◽  
The Health Belief Model

Research into the rising rates of sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies among adolescents has highlighted the challenge in developing sexual education campaigns that affect behavioural change. Frequent attempts to apply the otherwise robust Health Belief Model to the challenge of high-risk sexual behaviours have yielded confounding results from sexually active teens who discount the seriousness of consequences or their susceptibility to them. Social dynamics involving familial and peer relationships may strongly influence teen sexual risk-taking; the growing population of sexual risk-takers is strongly associated with disengaged family environments and a shift in alliance from family to peer community. This shift in identification to peer groups, in the absence of supportive parental relationships, is correlated with permissive and coercive sexual behaviour and a future of substance abuse, depression, sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancy.This paper seeks to explore the correlation between peer interaction and parental relationships and availability, while assessing the predictive value of the Health Belief Model in relation to adolescent high risk sexual behaviour. Doing so can inform research to further clarify the nature of these associations and investigate new insights into adolescent sexual dynamics and new policy and programming approaches to sexual health promotion.

scholarly journals The Effect of Educational Intervention on Safe and High-Risk Driving Behaviors in Taxi Drivers

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asghar Razmara ◽  
Teamur Aghamolaei ◽  
Zahra Hosseini ◽  
Abdolhossein Madani ◽  
Shahram Zare
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Health Belief Model ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Health Belief ◽  
Safe Driving ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Driving Behaviors ◽  
Belief Model ◽  
Risk Driving ◽  
The Health Belief Model

Background: High-risk driving behaviors is one of the leading causes of death and disability. Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of educational intervention on promoting safe-driving behaviors and reducing high risk-driving behaviors in taxi drivers based on the health belief model and planned behavior theory. Methods: A quasi-experimental study of interventional and control drivers (n = 40) selected by a cluster sampling method was conducted. The participants were selected from taxi stations. The intervention group was divided into 4 groups, including 10 people. The contents of the training program were based on driving laws, avoiding high-risk behaviors, and advising on safe driving behaviors. The driving behaviors were measured at baseline and 3-month post-intervention. Constructs of the health belief model and theory of planned behavior were used as an interventional program framework. Independent t-test and Paired t-test were used to compare the scores between intervention and control drivers and the intervention group before and after the intervention at each of the variables, respectively. Results: Three months post-intervention, the scores of safe driving behaviors in the intervention group were higher than the control group, and high-risk driving behaviors in the intervention group were less than the control group. After the intervention, a significant difference was observed in the mean scores of perceived barriers, self-efficacy, cues to action, attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control between two groups (P < 0.05). Conclusions: Educational intervention within the framework of the combined constructs of the health belief model and theory of planned behavior can reduce high-risk driving behaviors and promote safe driving behaviors in taxi drivers.

scholarly journals Effect of Education Based on the Health Belief Model on Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Female Victims of Sexual Assault

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zohreh Khakbazan ◽  
Arezu Mehdizadeh ◽  
Khadijeh Azimi ◽  
Mandana Mirmohammadali
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Diseases ◽  
Health Belief Model ◽  
Health Belief ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Female Victims ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Belief Model ◽  
The Health Belief Model

Abstract Background: Preventing sexually transmitted diseases is one of the main needs of the victims of sexual assault which their risks could be restricted by providing education to the victims. Therefore, the present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of education based on the Health Belief Model on the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases in female victims of sexual assault.Methods: The present randomized clinical trial was conducted at the forensics center of Babol. Samples were selected randomly and included 70 eligible women and girls who had complained of sexual assault. The intervention group was educated during a half an hour session based on the Health Belief Model with phone follow-up and educational pamphlets; the control group received routine care from the forensic center. Information was gathered at two stages before and after the intervention and then was analyzed.Results: Comparing the intervention and the control groups after the education showed a significant difference in perceived sensitivity and intensity (p = 0.001), perceived benefits (p = 0.04), perceived barriers (p = 0.001), and the performance of complained women and girls after sexual assault in preventing sexually transmitted diseases (p = 0.001).Conclusions: Education based on the Health Belief Model was effective on preventing sexually transmitted diseases. Therefore, it is recommended that this model would be used for the education of sexual assault victims for preventing sexually transmitted diseases.Trial registration: IRCT 2014101413542N3

Preventing HIV Infection among Juvenile Delinquents: Educational Diagnosis Using the Health Belief Model

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M. Lux ◽  
Rick Petosa
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Health Belief Model ◽  
Health Beliefs ◽  
Juvenile Delinquents ◽  
Safer Sex ◽  
Health Belief ◽  
Belief Model ◽  
The Health Belief Model

The purpose of this study was to use an enhanced version of the Health Belief Model as a conceptual framework to describe health beliefs and safer sex intentions for HIV prevention educational needs of juvenile delinquents between the ages of thirteen to eighteen years incarcerated in state supported training schools in Ohio. An accessible sample ( n = 452) of juvenile delinquents from four of nine institutions was the study population. Juvenile delinquents in this study were at high risk for HIV infection. They reported low rates of safer sex intentions. Rates of perceived barriers to condom use and perceived social barriers to safer sex were high and consistent with low rates of safer sex intention. Rates of self-efficacy for condom use were high but inconsistent with intentions. While a majority of subjects reported self-efficacy for discussion of sexual histories, a larger majority reported low efficacy for disclosing previous high-risk behavior. This suggests that discussion of sexual history with a partner may not be effective in reducing risk among this population. The primary source of information about HIV was the mass media. HIV prevention programs for juvenile delinquents should consider the current health beliefs of this high-risk, hard-to-reach population.

scholarly journals The Impact of the Health Belief Model Booklet Intervention on Behavior about Preventing High Risk of Pregnancy

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-93
Author(s):  
Teresia Retna Puspitadewi ◽  
Wahyuningsih Triana Nugraheni
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Health Belief Model ◽  
Health Belief ◽  
High Risk Pregnancy ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Risk Pregnancy ◽  
Belief Model ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Health Belief Model

Every pregnant woman has the risk of experiencing childbirth complications with various impacts including death, morbidity, disability. The objective of this study is to determine the impact of the health belief model booklet-based intervention on the prevention of high-risk pregnancy behavior in Merak Urak District, Tuban Regency. This type of research was a quasi experimental study using a post test with control group design, to determine the effect of an intervention using the Health Belief Model based booklet on prevention of high risk pregnancy behavior. The subjects in this study were all 60 pregnant women in the District of Merak Urak, Tuban Regency, selected by cluster sampling. Data were collected using an instrument in the form of a questionnaire, then analyzed by Manova test. Keywords: health belief model; booklet; health education; high-risk pregnancy

AIDS, Adolescents, and Sexual Risk Taking: A Test of the Health Belief Model

1992 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 166-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doreen A. Rosenthal ◽  
Christopher Hall ◽  
Susan M. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Health Belief Model ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Health Belief ◽  
Sexual Risk Taking ◽  
Belief Model ◽  
The Health Belief Model
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