healthy living revision

8/12/2019 Healthy Living Revision

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Healthy Living Revision March 2014

Health Belief Model - HBM Costs & benefits Perceived seriousness Perceived susceptibility

Demographic variables Beckers study Asthma +ve correlation between perceived

susceptibility & compliance -ve correlation between accessibility

of chemists 7 compliance Importance of marital status &

education

Why do

people makehealthychoices?


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Part a questions onHealth Belief Model

Outline the health belief model (10 marks)

Describe research that supports the healthbelief model of healthy behaviour (10 marks)


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Healthy choices might be linked toLocus of Control

Rotters Theory Internal / external locus of

control Your health is your

responsibility or blame it onothers

Review article 6 studies Internal locus of control

more likely to look aftertheir own health

Male smokers more likely togive up than females


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Part a questions onLocus of Control

Describe how the locus of control theoryexplains health behaviour (10 marks)

Describe research that has investigated how apersons locus of control affects their healthbehaviour (10 marks)


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Healthy choices might be linked to SelfEfficacy

Banduras Theory Hoe effective you think you will be Learning from consequences Leads to efficacy expectation

depending on:- Learning from vicarious experience Learning from verbal persuasion Emotional arousal Increasing self efficacy benefits

ion systematic desensitisation inphobias

Snake phobias correlationbetween level of self efficacy &

ability to interact with snakes


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Part a questions onSelf efficacy

Describe how self-efficacy affects healthybehaviour (10 marks)

Describe one study that suggests self-efficacyimpacts on health behaviour (10 marks)


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Part b questions onTheories of Health belief?

Evaluate theories of health belief (15 marks)

Assess the usefulness of theories of health

belief in explaining health behaviour (15 marks)

Compare two theories of health behaviour (15marks)

Evaluate research that has been conductedinto health belief models (15 marks)


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Methods of Health Promotion

Media campaigns

how good? Drink driving Changes in attitude but not

necessarily changes in behaviour Cowpe chip pan fires Quasi experiment Reduced rates on fire when the

campaign was on Increased awareness Tails off when campaign stops

Why do weneed topromote

goodhealth?


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Part a questions on media campaigns

Describe how media campaigns have been usedto promote healthy behaviour (10 marks)

Describe research that has investigated theinfluence of media campaigns on healthybehaviour (10 marks)

Describe one piece of research which looks atmedia campaigns in health promotion (10marks)


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Legislation to promote health Passing laws eg drink driving

levels How do we enforce the law?

Mobile phones? Dannenberg bicycle helmets USA Self reports? Worked best with young children

why? Increased awareness of the need

for helmets Does legislation work better than

health promotion?


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Part a questions on legislation

Describe the effect that legislation has onhealthy living (10 marks)

Describe how legislation can be used topromote healthy behaviour (10 marks)

Describe research that investigates the effectof legislation on healthy behaviour (10 marks)


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Fear rousal to promote health Warnings on cigarette packets

do they work? Janis & Feshbeck study of

dental hygiene Lab experiment 3 groups Strong fear, moderate fear,

minimal fear Self reports Students enjoyed strong fear

but learned more from minimalfear changed behaviour more What does this tell us?

Pain!Disease!Horror!


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Part b questions onmethods of health promotion

Assess the effectiveness of health promotioncampaigns (15 marks)

Discuss the usefulness of research that hasinvestigated health promotion (15 marks)

Evaluate research that has been conducted intohealth promotion (15 marks)

Compare methods of health promotion (15 marks)

Discuss attributes of a successful health promotioncampaign (15 marks)


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Features of Adherence?

Why do people not take theirmedication?

Decision is not always rational Possible side effects eg impotence Cost benefit analysis? Using self reports? Bulpitt suggests that when problem

is asymptomatic then adherence isan issue


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Measuring Non Adherence Self report? By therapeutic outcome does

he get better? Pill counting? Physiological measures blood

samples etc Lustman double blind

experiment Fluoxetine / placebo treatments

for depression Self reports & GHb levels Greater adherence led to lower

depression

How would mydoctor know ifI am taking my

medication?
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Part a questions on measuringadherence

Describe one technique used to measureadherence to medical regimens (10 marks)

Outline research that has been conducted intomeasuring non-adherence (10 marks)
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Improving dherence Reduce the costs of medication Improve instructions given by

doctors and on leaflets

Use HBM Increase self efficacy Use behaviourist techniques to

make it fun Watt Australian repeated

measures design Increased use of inhaler by 38%

Make it fun!!!!


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Part a questions on improvingadherence

Outline one technique used to improveadherence to medical advice (10 marks)

Describe research that has been conducted intotechniques to improve adherence (10 marks)


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Part b questions on improvingadherence

Assess the usefulness of research conducted intoadherence to medical advice (15 marks)

Discuss problems psychologists might have whentrying to improve adherence to medical regimes.(15 marks)

Evaluate the reliability of research that has beenconducted into adherence (15 marks)

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