Health Belief Model Hiv

The health belief model hbm model 21 provides a useful framework for studying hiv testing behavior among youth.

Health belief model hiv. Rosenstock 1960 1966 1974. Tarkang 1 francis b. An individual infected with hiv may have no visible symptoms of the illness.

Application of the health belief model hbm in hiv prevention. 2 department of family and community health school of public health university of health and allied sciences volta region ghana. This feeling is considered in literature as a component of the perceived barriers based on health beliefs model related to hiv aids and is considered to be one of the factors that affect the condom use 12 24 25.

Taylor et al 2007. Public health service in an effort to explain the widespread failure of people to participate in programs to prevent or to detect disease hochbaum 1958. Tarkang zotor 2015.

Fisher fisher misovich kimble malloy 1996 aids risk reduction model catania kregels 1990 and the health belief model rosenstock stretche becker 1988 have been used to try and understand why some people engage in hiv self protective behaviors while others do not. Model fisher fisher 1992. The current descriptive study assessed the self protective behavior of obtaining an hiv antibody test within the framework of the health belief model hbm.

The health belief model hbm was initially developed in the 1950s by a group of social psychologists in the u s. Discussing hiv testing with potential sex partners. As part of a study that explored the factors associated with consistent condom use among senior secondary school female learners in mbonge subdivision of rural cameroon the health belief model hbm was used as the framework.

Kennedy nyeseh ofori application of the health belief model to hiv testing and counselling among youth living in selected rural communities in ghana international journal of hiv aids prevention education and behavioural science. It suggests that people. 1 department of population and behavioural science school of public health university of health and allied sciences volta region ghana.