Theories of Health Behavior

Gehlert, Sarah; Ward, Trina Salm

doi:10.1002/9781119420743.ch7

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“…The questionnaire was based on a similar questionnaire on COVID-19 [19] and other questionnaires on H1N1 [16,22], and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, SARS [11] as well as concepts theories of health behaviors [23]. The questionnaire takes about 5 min to complete.…”

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A cross-sectional survey of knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) towards COVID-19 pandemic among the Syrian residents

Ahdab

2021

BMC Public Health

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Background Effective COVID-19 pandemic management requires adequate understanding of factors that influence behavioral changes. This study aims to assess knowledge, attitudes and practices towards COVID-19 among Syrians in a post-conflict context. Method A cross sectional web-based survey was conducted on the Syrian residents of 16 years and above. It contains questions on knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) with respect to COVID-19. Participants’ demographic characteristics are recorded and analyzed. The study is conducted during the global outbreak of COVID-19. Results A total of 706 participants (female, 444; male, 262) were enrolled. This study included 405 participants aged between 16 and 29, 204 aged between 30 and 49, and 97 aged above 60 years. There were 642 who have a university degree and 61 who have high school degree. Among the participants 253 were students, 316 were employed, 75 work as freelancers, and 62 were unemployed. Results showed that overall knowledge score towards the disease was about 60% (mean score 3.54 ± 1.20; range 0–6). Knowledge scores significantly differed across age groups (P < 0.05), education levels (P = 0.001), and occupations (P < 0.05). Attitude and practice scores were 2.45 ± 0.81 (range 0–4), 5.90 ± 1.52 (range 0–8), respectively. Attitude scores were significantly different between males and females (P < 0.05), whereas practice scores varied significantly across gender (P < 0.05), age groups (P = 0.01), education levels (P = 0.015), occupations (P < 0.05), and according to knowledge score (P = 0.000). Results from multiple linear regression indicated that lower knowledge scores were significantly associated with lower education level (P < 0.05), whereas poor preventive practices were common among male, young and unemployed participants with significance levels of P < 0.01, P = .000, P < 0.01, respectively. Conclusion The findings of this study suggest that the Syrian residents demonstrate modest knowledge, attitudes and practices towards COVID-19 at the time of its global outbreak. Efforts should be directed towards raising the awareness of the disease to improve their practices in the current COVID-19 pandemic, as well as for future epidemics.

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A cross-sectional survey of knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) towards COVID-19 pandemic among the Syrian residents

Ahdab

2021

BMC Public Health

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“…The theory of reasoned action (TRA) posits that an individual's behavioral intentions are determined by their attitudes, and the subjective norm associated with the behavior (Montaño & Kasprzyk, 2015). The TRA is an extension of the Health Belief Model (Gehlert & Ward, 2019), which attempts to describe how individual beliefs relate to preventive health measures but does not necessarily offer insight into motivational behavior for engagement in preventive health behaviors. TRA has been applied to a wide range of behaviors, such as substance abuse (Gehlert & Ward, 2019), weight loss (Gehlert & Ward, 2019), and HIV prevention (Montaño & Kasprzyk, 2015).…”

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“…The TRA is an extension of the Health Belief Model (Gehlert & Ward, 2019), which attempts to describe how individual beliefs relate to preventive health measures but does not necessarily offer insight into motivational behavior for engagement in preventive health behaviors. TRA has been applied to a wide range of behaviors, such as substance abuse (Gehlert & Ward, 2019), weight loss (Gehlert & Ward, 2019), and HIV prevention (Montaño & Kasprzyk, 2015). TRA addresses many of the factors associated with potential covariates with compliance of COVID-19 preventative measures, such as attitude.…”

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Compliance with preventative measures during the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA and Canada: Results from an online survey

Wang

Marmo

Krase

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Social Work in Health Care

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“…According to Gehlert and Ward (2019), the health belief model (HBM) is one of the most known public health models worldwide. It was incepted in the 1950s by social scientists in public health service to facilitate understanding of health behavior, specifically failure and success related to good health practices (Gurung, 2014; Gurung 2019).…”

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A review of telehealth during the COVID-19 emergency situation in the public health sector: challenges and opportunities

Maleka¹,

Matli

2022

JSTPM

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide current state of knowledge on how the COVID-19 emergency situation necessitated the behaviour influencing use and acceptance of telehealth. This study interlinks the health belief model (HBM) and the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) to highlight the challenges and opportunities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in the public health sector. Design/methodology/approach This study used three online databases (Emerald publishing, Science Direct and Taylor and Francis) that enabled the authors to access electronic journal articles. Search strategy was used to extract articles based on the relevance of this study. Findings The key findings from this study suggested that the COVID-19 emergency forced health-care workers and their patients to rapidly use and rely on telehealth to reduce the rate of COVID-19 transmissions. The key benefits of telehealth use highlighted an expansive cost effective and convenient access to health-care services irrespective of geographical local and levels of physical impairment. Moreover, telehealth inhibited in person human interaction, which was perceived as impersonal and not ideal for new patient consultations. The barriers outweighed the benefits; as a result, it is unlikely that there will be a wide use of telehealth beyond the COVID-19 emergency situation. Practical implications The research findings are limited to discussions drawn from available secondary data. The criteria within telehealth for policymakers to note the technology acceptance and use for both health-care and outpatient stakeholders and their health seeking behaviour. Health-care sectors (private and public) and government need to understand enablers of effective telehealth in policymaking to ease the barriers during an emergency situation like a pandemic. Originality/value This study contributes to the emerging literature on how COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted and accelerated telehealth by extending both the UTAUT and HBM theories. This study is expected to contribute and expand literature on telehealth during emergency situations, given the novice nature of COVID-19 and limited literature surrounding it.

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Theories of Health Behavior

Cited by 10 publications

References 104 publications

A cross-sectional survey of knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) towards COVID-19 pandemic among the Syrian residents

A cross-sectional survey of knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) towards COVID-19 pandemic among the Syrian residents

Compliance with preventative measures during the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA and Canada: Results from an online survey

A review of telehealth during the COVID-19 emergency situation in the public health sector: challenges and opportunities

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