Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Vulva, Pus, Gardasil

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Jacob Fisher

Document Summary

Information motivation behavioral skills model: mediation model, doesn"t matter how much you know or want to engage in reproductive health behavior, if you lack specific skills required (thinking in advance, negotiation), it doesn"t matter, beware of dangerous information (i. e. cosmopolitan magazines say women cannot get aids, beware of sexist information (i. e. more information on male condom vs. female) Reproductive health/contraceptive/hiv prevention behavior sequence: self acceptance of sexuality, creating personal sexual and reproductive health agenda, negotiating prevention or unsafe situations, public preventive or enhancement acts buying condoms, prescriptions for oral contraceptive, consistent practice of prevention self and partner reinforcement, shifting preventive scripts. Hpv vaccination behavior sequence in young women: learning about hpv infection and vaccination, accepting hpv vaccination and adding to own health agenda, bringing up prevention with health care provider, funding vaccination costs and insurance coverage, adherence to vaccination regimen return visits, self reinforcement for prevention (cid:224) (cid:224) 2: elicitation formative research; eliciting prevention information, motivation, behavioral skills and behavior.