Health Literacy: An Effective Component to Overcome Perceived Barriers to Adoption of Preventive Behaviors in the Health Belief Model

Dear Editor-in-Chief: Health Belief Model is one of the most widely used models in health behaviors and it is considered an individual model of behavioral study. This model measures the relationship between health belief and health behavior, and it is based on the hypothesis that the adoption of pre...

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Published inMajallah-i āmūzish va salāmat-i jāmiʻah Vol. 5; no. 3; pp. 1 - 3
Main Authors Panahi, Rahman, Ebrahimi, Gholamreza, Kazemi, Seyede Somayeh, Tavousi, Mahmoud
Format Journal Article
LanguagePersian
Published Hamadan University of Medical Sciences 01.12.2018
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Health Belief Model
Health Literacy
Perceived Barriers
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Summary:Dear Editor-in-Chief: Health Belief Model is one of the most widely used models in health behaviors and it is considered an individual model of behavioral study. This model measures the relationship between health belief and health behavior, and it is based on the hypothesis that the adoption of preventive behavior is based on the beliefs of the person. In this model, whatever perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, and perceived benefits are stronger, perceived barriers are weaker, and the probability of adoption of preventive health behaviors is greater. In this model, perceived barriers are considered the most important predictors of behavior.
ISSN:2383-2150
2383-2312
2383-2312
DOI:10.21859/jech.5.3.1