HSS 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Health Belief Model, Transtheoretical Model, Theory Of Planned Behavior

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 1101
• Professor: Tien Nguyen

Document Summary

3 categories of factors involved in your attitudes, behaviours & behaviour change decisions. Predisposing factors: factors that are likely to lead you to a particular behaviour or attitude, life experiences, knowledge, cultural and ethnic inheritance, current beliefs and values, sex, income, family, education, e. g. if your parents smoked. Enabling factors: skills or abilities (mental, physical & intellectual) Resources and accessible facilities: makes health decisions easier; encourage you to go through with your intentions, there are both positive and negative enablers, affect your plans, if negative outweighs the positive alternatives need to form. Understanding when to change vs. what to change: changing established attitudes and behaviours isn"t easy, finding out where you are and how ready you are to change may affect this. Stages of change, trans-theoretical model: model used to explain the behaviour change process, developed from research used to get someone to quit smoking, asks. Strategies for change: sometimes just a few frank words are needed.