Health Behavior Theory
Key Terms
Social Support
Campaigns
Providers
100

This model emphasizes factors like perceived susceptibility, severity, benefits, barriers, and cues to action in predicting health behaviors.

Health Belief Model

100

When people engage in conversations about their medical care preferences surrounding the end of their lives

advance care planning

100

Support in the form of facts, advice, experiential information

Informational support

100

The first step in campaign development

Formative evaluation

100

A syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed

burnout

200

This theory explains behavior through attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived control

Theory of Planned Behavior

200

Belief in one’s own ability to act successfully              

self-efficacy

200

listening, encouragement, compassion are types of _______ support

emotional support

200

The last step in formative evaluation

Message development

200

the most common cause of adverse events in health care

communication

300

This theory suggests that personal, environmental, and behavioral factors interact to influence future behavior

Social cognitive theory

300

training centered around a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enables effective work in cross-cultural situations

Cultural competency              

300

Tangible or physical assistance is also known as

instrumental support

300

Considering demographics, geography, psychographics (values, interests, etc) in campaign development

audience targeting

300

the transfer of patient care from one healthcare provider to another

patient handoff

400

This model breaks behavior change into stages like precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance.

Transtheoretical Model 

400

 a designated individual who is legally empowered to make decisions related to the healthcare of an individual in the event that the individual is unable to do so.

Surrogate decision maker                  

400

A message that challenges or ignores the legitimacy of a person’s feelings and tells them how they ought to act or places blame on them for their situation is

Low-person centered

400

This unintended consequence of some public health campaigns can lead to social isolation and discrimination.

stigma

400

This care that helps people with serious illnesses or chronic conditions manage symptoms and improve their quality of life

palliative care

500

This theory proposes that people are more influenced by potential losses than gains, depending on their level of risk sensitivity.

Prospect theory

500

when the culture of a dominant group, including its characteristics, beliefs, and practices, is considered the general norm and any deviations from that norm are considered “less than.”

othering

500

A message that explicitly acknowledge the person’s feelings and helps them elaborate their feelings to gain understanding and perspective is

high-person centered

500

How many percentage points, on average, does research show health campaigns influence behavior?

5%

500

medical error that results in an undesirable clinical outcome—not caused by underlying disease—that prolonged the patient stay, caused permanent patient harm, required life-saving intervention,

adverse event

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