scholarly journals The Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention Based on the Health Belief Model in the Empowerment of Stockbreeders Against High-Risk Behaviors Asso-ciated with Brucellosis

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vahid Babaei ◽  
Gholamreza Garmaroodi ◽  
Azizollah Batebi ◽  
Davood Alipour ◽  
Mohammad Shahbaz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Health Belief Model ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Health Belief ◽  
High Risk Behaviors ◽  
Belief Model ◽  
The Health Belief Model

High-risk behaviors among Iranian female drug users inspiring health belief model

2017 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. e143
Author(s):  
Effat Merghati-khoei ◽  
Mansoreh jamshidimanesh ◽  
Ilika Fariba Ilika ◽  
Mostafa Hosseini
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Health Belief Model ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Health Belief ◽  
High Risk Behaviors ◽  
Female Drug Users ◽  
Belief Model

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 An Assessment of an Educational Intervention Program Based on the Health Belief Model for Safer Sex Among Female Sex Workers in Selected Districts of Northern Region of Malawi

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donatien Twizelimana ◽  
Adamson Sinjani Muula
Keyword(s):  
Health Belief Model ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Female Sex Workers ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Safer Sex ◽  
Health Belief ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
Belief Model ◽  
The Health Belief Model

Abstract Background: Pregnant women are at risk of pregnancy if they have unprotected sex, do not use or poorly use contraceptives in the context of penile-vaginal sex. We therefore developed an educational toolkit based on the Health Belief Model (HBM) to assist FSWs to make informed sexual and reproductive decision for safer sex before and/or after heterosexual encounter with their clients. We evaluated the educational intervention programme among FSWs and other stakeholders (nurses and clinicians).Methods:This was a qualitative operational research. We developed an educational tool kit based on the HBM to aid FSWs to make informed decision for safer sex behaviour. We conducted 10 in-depth interviews (IDIs) to identify the components of the educational tool kit, 5 IDIs for modification and refining the tool, and consequently two Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) for consensus building. This process was done in Mzimba North. After the intervention we conducted 6 FGDs with FSWs and 10 IDIs with nurses and clinicians to evaluate the applicability and feasibility of the intervention among female sex workers (FSWs) in Mzimba North, and Nkhata Bay located in Northern region of Malawi.Results:We observed mixed opinions on the components of the educational toolkit. Female sex workers were eager to understand misinformation and misconceptions on contraceptives, right to justice, effectiveness of contraceptives. Female sex workers requested the inclusion of STIs and HIV prevention and economic empowerment in the toolkit. Overall the toolkit and the educational intervention were relevant, feasible, and applicable among the study participants. Conclusion:While several strategies can be used to facilitate the implementation of the evidence based intervention to improve health, our educational intervention program based on the Health Belief Model for safer sex behaviour among female sex workers was found to be feasible and applicable in our study settings. We believe that the intervention may be helpful to address sexual and reproductive health challenges encountered by FSWs in the study sites and elsewhere.

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