The Role of Self-Efficacy in Health Behavior Change

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Schwarzer
Keyword(s):  
Health Behavior ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Health Behavior Change

scholarly journals The Role of Self-Efficacy in Achieving Health Behavior Change

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor J. Strecher ◽  
Brenda McEvoy DeVellis ◽  
Marshall H. Becker ◽  
Irwin M. Rosenstock
Keyword(s):  
Health Behavior ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Health Behavior Change

scholarly journals Physician training in self-efficacy enhancing interviewing techniques (SEE IT): Effects on patient psychological health behavior change mediators

2016 ◽  
Vol 99 (11) ◽  
pp. 1865-1872 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Jerant ◽  
Melissa Lichte ◽  
Richard L. Kravitz ◽  
Daniel J. Tancredi ◽  
Elizabeth M. Magnan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Behavior ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Health Behavior Change ◽  
Physician Training ◽  
Interviewing Techniques ◽  
Change Mediators

The Role of Targeted E-Mail Messaging at the Worksite

2012 ◽  
pp. 504-513
Author(s):  
Betsy B. Aumiller
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Behavior ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Health Behavior Change ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
Educational Strategies ◽  
Worksite Health ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Insight Into

Employers are vested in pursuing educational strategies that work to improve employee health and decrease health care utilization. The use of e-mail for health promotion efforts at the worksite presents the freedom to deliver messages outside the boundaries of time and location; preliminary studies suggest that it is an effective way to encourage health behavior. This chapter explores health behavior change, adult learning theory, and media effects research regarding targeted e-mail messaging at the worksite to offer insight into how people perceive and interact with different forms of messages and what kinds of visual enhancements may positively impact perception of the message itself. Results of a qualitative study investigating employees’ interpretations of message meaning, perceptions of visual e-mail enhancements and associated health behavior change will be discussed as promising research in worksite health promotion.

Transtheoretical Model and Stages of Change in Health and Risk Messaging

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth M. Noar
Keyword(s):  
Health Behavior ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Stages Of Change ◽  
Transtheoretical Model ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Health Behavior Change ◽  
Decisional Balance ◽  
Message Design ◽  
Tailored Interventions ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

The Transtheoretical Model (TTM) is an integrative health behavior change theory that describes the process of how people change their behavior. The central organizing construct in the theory is stages of change, which are five distinct stages of readiness to change behavior, ranging from not ready to change (precontemplation), thinking about change (contemplation), preparing to change (preparation), changing (action), and maintaining the change (maintenance). Movement through the stages may be nonlinear, and cycling and recycling through the stages is viewed as a natural part of the change process. Other model constructs explain what drives individuals forward through the stages of change. Decisional balance involves a weighing of pros and cons of changing behavior, while self-efficacy involves situation-specific confidence that one can change. Increases in pros, deceases in cons, and increases in self-efficacy propel people forward through the stages of change. The processes of change are experiential and behavioral strategies that people use to change their behavior. In early stages of change, people use experiential strategies while they use behaviorally oriented strategies in later stages of change. The TTM holds significant implications for message design. Most notably, messages should be targeted and tailored to stages of change, and where possible, to other model variables as well. Studies indicate that the TTM has been successfully applied to health communication campaigns, and to a larger extent, to computer-tailored interventions to change health behavior. Meta-analyses indicate that scores of computer-tailored interventions have been efficacious, including many based upon the TTM and stages of change. New applications of the model include a focus on novel health behaviors, multiple behavior change, and advancing an understanding of message design in the context of the TTM in combination with other theoretical approaches.

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