[ANSWER]SOCB311 Assignment 1 Theoretical Essay – Health Behaviour Change: Health Belief Model vs. Theory of Planned Behaviour

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The effectiveness of the HBM in predicting health behavior change has been demonstrated in scholarly literature. In one quasi-experimental study that involved 226 Iranian women aged 20-60 years, an educational intervention designed based on the Health Belief Model and aimed at increasing the uptake of breast cancer screening was found to cause significant changes in participants.

The perceived vulnerability to breast cancer, perceived seriousness of the condition, as well as perceived benefits and barriers of breast cancer screening. After the educational intervention, participants in the experimental group were more willing than those in the control group to go for breast cancer screening even if they did not have symptoms of the disease.

In another study that also examined readiness for breast cancer screening among female subjects, but in a different context (Malaysia), researchers found perceived severity, perceived susceptibility, perceived benefits and perceived barriers to be significant determinants of the intention to go for breast cancer screening (Chin & Mansori, 2019).

Research has also demonstrated the effectiveness of the Health Belief Model in predicting behavior in several other domains, including ovarian cancer, (Herrmann et al., 2018), nutrition and diet (Diddana et al., 2018), and communicable disease (Patterson et al., 2018). This evidence suggests that the HBM…[Buy Full Answer for Just USD 9: 2563 WORDS]

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