The Integrated Model of Wearable Activity Tracker Use: Exploring Health Beliefs and Obesity Information Seeking Behaviors from a Nationally Representative Sample (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bokyung Kim ◽  
Seoyeon Hong ◽  
Sungwook Kim
Keyword(s):  
Health Beliefs ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Perceived Susceptibility ◽  
Activity Tracker ◽  
Wearable Activity Tracker ◽  
Information Seeking Behaviors

BACKGROUND Previous related studies mainly focus on the development and implementation of healthcare wearable technology, while theoretical research about adoption and actual usage of wearable activity tracker is relatively sparse. Technology acceptance model has been an only theoretical frame that dominantly explained the adoption of new health technology. OBJECTIVE This study aims to explore factors affecting wearable activity tracking device adoption and usage among both obese adults and healthy consumers from perspectives of individual health beliefs (perceived severity, perceived susceptibility, perceived benefits, and self-efficacy) and information seeking behaviors. METHODS Our Integrated Model of Wearable Activity Tracker Use (IMWAT) and proposed hypotheses were validated and tested with data collected from a population representative telephone survey (N=2006). The data was analyzed using a variety of statistical techniques including Structural Equation Modeling using R. RESULTS Our results show that perceived benefits of physical activity, perceived susceptibility and self-efficacy toward obesity are significant predictors of information seeking behavior that mediates their effects on the use of wearable activity trackers, while obesity severity perceptions directly promote the wearable device usage. CONCLUSIONS The current study offers a theoretical contribution to the extension of the HBM and information seeking literature, while also providing practical recommendations for health technology developers and communicators of public obesity prevention campaigns.

scholarly journals Health Belief Associated with Adherence to Health Protocol in Preventing Coronavirus Diseases on Patients’ Family

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (B) ◽  
pp. 1011-1015
Author(s):  
Riza Fikriana ◽  
Frastiqa Fahrany ◽  
Syahril Ali Rusli
Keyword(s):  
Health Beliefs ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Health Belief ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Perceived Susceptibility ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Perceived Severity

BACKGROUND: Adherence with health protocols during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is very important to prevent transmission. However, it is obtained that adherence with health protocols is still not optimal. The hospital environment is an area that is at high risk of transmission. AIM: The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between health belief and adherence with the health protocol in the patient’s family. METHODS: Quantitative research is correlated with a cross-sectional approach. The sample is the family of patients at the hospital, which was taken with simple random sampling technique as many as 100 people. Research variables include perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barrier, self-efficacy, and adherence with health protocols. Data collection was using questionnaire instruments. Data analysis was using Fisher test with a significance level of 95%. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: Fisher’s test results obtained data that there is a relationship between health belief in the dimensions of perceived susceptibility (p = 0.007), perceived severity (p = 0.027), perceived benefits (p = 0.003), perceived barriers (p = 0.021), and self-efficacy (p = 0.002) with adherence with health protocols in an effort to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. The patient’s family will be willing to implement health protocols if they have a high health belief in efforts to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. This health belief includes the belief that COVID-19 disease is easily contagious and serious; adherence will provide benefits for health. CONCLUSION: Health beliefs are significantly related to adherence with health protocols in the prevention of COVID-19 transmission in the patient’s family.

Health Beliefs Associated with Preventive Health Behaviors for COVID-19: Findings in a Sample Drawn from a Major City in Iran (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marzieh Araban ◽  
Mehdi Mesri ◽  
Mahmood Karimy ◽  
Mohammad Rreza Rouhani ◽  
LAR Stein
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Health Beliefs ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Smoking Status ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Perceived Susceptibility ◽  
Randomized Sampling

BACKGROUND Background: To date, in the absence of effective treatment and successful vaccines, the COVID-19 pandemic has become the most important threat to public health. OBJECTIVE Objectives: This study was conducted in Saveh city, of Iran, in 2020. Of interest were how health beliefs (taken from the Health Belief’s Model [HBM]), demographic characteristics, and general health behaviors (e.g., smoking) relate to COVID-19 preventative behaviors (e.g., hand-washing). METHODS Methods: In this descriptive-analytic study, a multi-stage randomized sampling method was used and 486 people (250 males and 236 females) recruited from health centers in Saveh city, Iran, participated. Data were collected through a self-administered multi‑part questionnaire, which included sociodemographic information, health behaviors, and constructs associated with HBM. Data were analyzed using independent t-tests, ANOVA, and multiple regression in SPSS version 21. RESULTS Results: Perceived disease susceptibility (β=0.44, p<0.001), self-efficacy to enact preventative behaviors (β=0.24, p<0.01), education (β=0.20, p<0.001), non-smoking status (β=0.14, p<0.01), marital status (β=0.10, p<0.03), and perceived barriers to disease preventative behaviors (β=-0.10, p<0.04) were important predictors of prevention practices for COVID-19. Perceived susceptibility, self-efficacy, barriers, and socio-demographic constructs (education, smoking, and marital status) accounted for 61.4% (adjusted R2) of the variance associated with preventive behavior for COVID-19. CONCLUSIONS Conclusion: To improve control strategies for the COVID-19 pandemic, public health initiatives are needed to enhance perceived susceptibility to the disease and improve self-efficacy to perform preventative behaviors in spite of perceived barriers.

scholarly journals The effect of antibody test result knowledge on transmission reducing behaviours

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Morrow ◽  
Sara Jenks ◽  
Becky Batchelor
Keyword(s):  
Health Beliefs ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Health Belief ◽  
Antibody Test ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Antibody Testing ◽  
The Face ◽  
Cues To Action ◽  
Belief Model

This study explored the effect knowledge of antibody status has on compliance with transmission reducing behaviours (TRBs). Participants (n=82) comprised of NHS Lothian staff and individuals enrolled in the BioResource study with community diagnosed and treated SARS-CoV-2 infections. They completed a baseline health beliefs questionnaire, provided blood samples for antibody testing and received result 2-4 weeks later. Around 2-4 weeks later, participants completed follow-up health belief questionnaires. The questionnaire was designed based on the constructs of the Health Belief Model, the most prominent framework for understanding why individuals may or may not act in the face of a threat. Fifty-six participants completed the follow-up health belief questionnaires. Knowledge of antibody status did not affect compliance with TRBs. Increased perceived benefits, cues to action and self-efficacy, and decreased perceived barriers, to comply with TRBs was significantly associated with higher compliance. No significant correlation was found between measures of susceptibility or severity and compliance with TRBs. Interventions to increase perceived benefits, cues to action and self-efficacy, and decrease barriers, to engaging in TRBs should be explored.

Pairing Organizational and Individual Factors to Improve Employees’ Risk Responsiveness

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 504-533
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Ford ◽  
Keri K. Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Oil Refinery ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Near Misses ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Information Seeking Behaviors

Scholars and practitioners have established various mechanisms and processes that help safeguard employee health and safety. Extant literature emphasizes the importance of training workers to respond to workplace hazards but often overlooks the influence of organizational factors on employees’ safety behavior. This study surveyed employees at a U.S. oil refinery to assess the influence of both individual and organizational factors on risk responsiveness—behaviors such as having safety conversations at work, possessing self-efficacy, and being willing to respond appropriately to risks. Drawing from prior health communication models, this study develops an integrated model of risk responsiveness. Results suggest that a combination of individual factors and perceptions of organizational information-seeking processes are better predictors of (a) risk-information-seeking behaviors, (b) safety self-efficacy, and (c) risk knowledge than individual-level factors or organizational processes alone. Furthermore, prior near prior near misses or injuries at work had no impact on any of the outcome variables.

scholarly journals A Metacognitive Approach to Reconsidering Risk Perceptions and Uncertainty: Understand Information Seeking During COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 616-642
Author(s):  
Yan Huang ◽  
Chun Yang
Keyword(s):  
Health Communication ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Perceived Susceptibility ◽  
Risk Situation ◽  
Information Seeking Behaviors

The study examined the psychological drivers of information-seeking behaviors during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Employing a two-wave (from April 16, 2020, to April 27, 2020) survey design ( N = 381), the study confirmed that both risk perceptions and uncertainty were important antecedents to information seeking and that their effects were linked to emotional appraisals of the risk situation. Findings revealed nuanced relationships between these two constructs and emotional appraisals. Danger appraisal was positively associated with perceived susceptibility and susceptibility uncertainty but negatively related to severity uncertainty; hope appraisal depended on the interaction between uncertainty and risk perceptions. Implications of the study findings on risk and health communication were discussed.

scholarly journals The health beliefs of patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus who use herbs as a complement to self-care

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
Anita Joeliantina ◽  
Hepta Nur Anugrahini ◽  
Jujuk Proboningsih
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Health Beliefs ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Health Belief ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Perceived Vulnerability

Diabetes mellitus type 2 patients who have a tendency to use herbs, are based on the patient's health belief that herbal medicine is a natural ingredient that has efficacy and is safe. This study aimed to explore health beliefs as predictors of herbal use as a complement to diabetes self-care. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 230 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who had been clinically diagnosed, received medical treatment and used herbs. The data was collected using a questionnaire at seven community health centers (Puskesmas) in Surabaya City. Data analysis using Partial Least Square. The indicator of health belief variables has a loading factor value&gt;0.5: perceived vulnerability and severity (0.820), perceived benefits (0.739), perceived barriers (0.822), sense of self-efficacy (0.695). Health beliefs have a significant effect on the use of herbs as a complement to diabetes self-care, the value of T&gt;1.97 (T&gt;10.07). Health beliefs consisting of perceived vulnerability and severity, perceived benefits, perceived inhibition, and perceived self-efficacy were strong predictors associated with the use of herbs as a complement to diabetes self-care. Nurses as part of health workers must pay attention to patient health beliefs in providing education to patients.

scholarly journals Correlates of Older Adults’ E-Health Information-Seeking Behaviors

Gerontology ◽  
2022 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Sara Pourrazavi ◽  
Kamiar Kouzekanani ◽  
Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi ◽  
Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi ◽  
Mina Hashemiparast ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Health Information Seeking ◽  
Information Seeking Behaviors

<b><i>Introduction:</i></b> The Internet is an important source for health information and a medium for older adults’ empowerment in health decision-making and self-caring. Therefore, we aimed to identify the potential motivators and probable barriers of e-health information-seeking behaviors (e-HISB) among older Iranian adults. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> A cross-sectional study assessed the usefulness of self-efficacy, perceived encouragement, positive attitude toward e-HISB, perceived usefulness, challenges of being visited by physicians, and perceived barriers in predicting e-HISB in a sample of 320 older adults in Tabriz, Iran. <b><i>Results:</i></b> The self-efficacy for online information seeking, positive attitude toward e-HISB, and perceived usefulness increased the odds of e-HISB by 12.00%, 24.00%, and 15.00%, respectively. In addition, e-health literacy, conflicting information, distrust of online information, and web designs that were not senior-friendly were the major barriers to e-HISB. <b><i>Discussion/Conclusion:</i></b> The theoretical and practical implications of the motivators and barriers of e-HISB can be instrumental in designing and executing programs aimed at improving e-health literacy among older adults especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals TINDAKAN PENCEGAHAN KARIES GIGI PADA SISWA SEKOLAH DASAR BERDASARKAN TEORI HEALTH BELIEF MODEL

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Lidia Septianingtias Setiari ◽  
Muji Sulistyowati
Keyword(s):  
Dental Caries ◽  
Health Belief Model ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Health Belief ◽  
Caries Prevention ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Perceived Susceptibility ◽  
Perceived Severity ◽  
Belief Model

Dental caries is one of the serious health problem in school age children. The maintenance of dental and oral health need to be done early in the prevention of dental caries. This study was conducted to analyze  the application of Health Belief Model theory on dental caries prevention  in elementary school students. This research was quantitative study with a cross-sectional approach. Sample were fifth grade student at SDN Kedurus 1 Surabaya amount to 53 students and taken by simple random sampling. The independent variable were perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, self-efficacy and cues to action. The dependent variable of this study was action in the prevention of dental caries. Quantitative data was analyzed using Spearman correlation test and logistic regression. The respondent action to prevent dental caries was good. There was a correlation between perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, self-efficacy and cues to action with action in preventing dental caries. This research concluded that perceived susceptibility was the most influencing factor in preventing dental caries. It was suggested to increase the effort of  promotive and preventive in school so that the students can more diligent in doing dental caries prevention action. Keyword: health belief model, dental caries, behavior of students

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