The Stages of Change model helps health care workers to understand destructive behaviors and assists in recognizing a client's place in the change process. This model involves six stages that take a person from the beginning, learning to indentify the problem, to the end, living without the problem (Prochaska & DiClemente, 1984)
Factors that affect the rate of innovation diffusion include the mix of rural to urban population within a society, the society's level of education and the extent of industrialization and development. Different societies are likely to have different adoption rates for different types of innovations (Rogers & Scott, 1997)
The application of the Health Belief Model to examine the rates of influenza vaccines in connection with a sense of vulnerability found that "it is more likely for vaccination to correlate positively with perceived susceptibility" (Chen, Wang, Schneider, Tsai, Jiang, & Lin, 2011). In addition, the model has been applicable in identifying factors influencing the underutilization of mental health service related to "perceptions of symptoms and vulnerabilities, views of the value of mental health care, the nature and severity of related barriers, and beliefs that one might be able to make effective use of mental health interventions" (Smith, 2009)
Nursing - Applying Health Belief Model to Alcoholism Treatment and Implication for Healthcare Delivery Perceived susceptibility "Perceived susceptibility" is the patient's subjective perception of his/her risk of contracting an illness or disease, which would be alcoholism in the instant case There is significant disparity individual perceptions of personal susceptibility an illness or disease (Glanz, Rimer, & Viswanath, 2008, p
198). However, researchers have also found that while a great deal of alcohol advertising specifically targets Hispanic youths (Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth, 2005), Hispanic youths are also less likely to be influenced by such advertising than are non-Hispanic youths (Martino, et al
indicate, applying key concepts is ideally a multifaceted approach. In the case of Hispanic youths, for example, in a 2012 study entitled "Comparison across two generations of prospective models of how the low level of response to alcohol affects alcohol outcomes," researchers found that misperceptions of the benefits of heavy use of alcohol among youths is influenced by a combination of factors: genetic low level of sensitivity to alcohol, causing the use of greater amounts of alcohol to induce its pleasurable effects; peer drinking; and observations of alcohol use for dealing with stress by heavy-drinking peers (Schuckit, et al
e. alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana) than did all non-Hispanic adolescents and concluded that factors in the individual, family and school must be specifically identified in the local population and addressed in "tailored intervention" (Shih, Miles, Tucker, Zhou, & D'Amico, 2010, p
Leininger's "Culture Care Theory" places culture at the heart of palliative care by pointing out how ethnicity and care expectations are intertwined in the patient and illustrating the need to approach patients with this awareness of how culture and care are related. Care providers who are sensitive to and accommodating of cultural and ethnic beliefs are perceived as more caring, knowledgeable and effective than providers who do not consider ethnic or cultural perspectives (Luna, 1998)
The Health Belief Model has been applied since the 1950s in a number of ways. In 1984, a study was performed in which more than 40 previous studies on the impact of the Health Belief Model were analyzed and the conclusion found that the model is inherently sturdy in terms of predicting perceptions of behavior and outcomes (Janz, Becker, 1984)
e., viewed treatment as effective and good), that person was more likely to participate in the prevention program (Rosenstock, 1974)