Application of the health Belief Model to assess community preventive practices against COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia

Syed, Mamoon H.; Meraya, Abdulkarim M.; Yasmeen, Ayesha; Albarraq, Ahmed A.; Alqahtani, Saad S.; Syed, Nabeel Kashan; Algarni, Majed A.; Alam, Nawazish

doi:10.1016/j.jsps.2021.09.010

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“…The HBM framework helps to predict the causes for individual decisions to adopt preventive measures that will reduce the risk of infection (19,36). A previous study in Saudi Arabia showed that HBM constructs can be used to assess community protective measures (37). In addition, HBM constructs explained 27% of the variance in COVID-19 preventive behaviors within the general population of Iran (6).…”

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Using the Health Belief Model to Predict Vaccination Intention Among COVID-19 Unvaccinated People in Thai Communities

Seangpraw

Pothisa²,

Boonyathee³

et al. 2022

Front. Med.

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BackgroundThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become one of the biggest challenges to individual health and the public health system worldwide. COVID-19 morbidity and mortality are increasing, impacting almost every country including Thailand. This study used the Health Belief Model (HBM) as a framework to examine the intention of unvaccinated people living in northern Thailand to receive COVID-19 vaccines.MethodsThis cross-sectional study was conducted during October and November 2021. A total of 1,024 participants who are currently living in four northern provinces of Thailand, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lamphun, and Phayao, were recruited to participate in the study. The questionnaire was developed using an HBM structure to obtain information about the perceived severity, perceived susceptibility, self-efficacy, perceived benefits and barriers, cues to action, and preventive behaviors relating to COVID-19 vaccination and the decision to become vaccinated. Multiple linear regression was used to analyze the data.ResultsThe unvaccinated participants were an average of 44.45 ± 16.63 years of age and more than half were women (54.5%). The COVID-19 preventive behavior score used perceived severity (B = 0.26), self-efficacy (B = 0.51), perceived benefits and barriers (B = 0.11), and cues to action (B = 0.18) after adjusting for age, underlying disease, and body mass index (R2 = 42.5%). The COVID-19 vaccination decision score was positively correlated with perceived severity (B = 0.13), perceived susceptibility (B = 0.25), perceived benefits and barriers (B = 0.21), and cues to action (B = 0.27) after adjusting for underlying disease (R2 = 38.7%).DiscussionThe results demonstrated the usefulness of using the HBM structure to understand individual intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Communities should consider a COVID-19 health campaign and programs that use the HBM model as a framework for altering perceptions and beliefs about the COVID-19 vaccine and improving vaccination rates among unvaccinated people in rural northern Thailand.

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Using the Health Belief Model to Predict Vaccination Intention Among COVID-19 Unvaccinated People in Thai Communities

Seangpraw

Pothisa²,

Boonyathee³

et al. 2022

Front. Med.

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“…Syed/Nov 2021 106 Application of the Health Belief Model to assess community preventive practices against COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia.…”

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“… 920 participants Online questionnaire The authors suggested their results could prove the importance/power of the Saudi Vision (2030) represented by “the National Transformation Program on enhancing the healthcare system, facilitating access to healthcare, and integrating technology among government parties” addressed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Syed/Nov 2021 106 Application of the Health Belief Model to assess community preventive practices against COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia. 900 participants Online questionnaire The health belief model’s constructs of perceived susceptibility, severity, benefits, and cue to action can be adopted to help strengthen COVID-19 limiting behaviors and prevention programs.…”

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COVID-19 and Saudi Arabia: Awareness, Attitude, and Practice

Fawzy¹,

AlSadrah²

2022

JMDH

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The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-CoronaVirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has transformed our appreciation of healthcare awareness worldwide. The amount of related data accumulated during this time has surpassed any other outbreak of a viral pathogen. Healthcare awareness is related to one of the nine pillars of the "World health organization (WHO) operational planning guidelines to support country preparedness and response". This review is structured around the awareness/knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP)-related publications in Saudi Arabia up to date to understand the impact of COVID-19 on these domains. The excellent communication effort response from governments, international, and individuals to keep the public informed about the outbreak is highlighted. Unraveling such impacts on the Saudi communities, including healthcare workers (HCWs)/professionals (HCPs), students, patients with different diseases, and non-professional individuals, is essential in containing the outbreak and planning preventive measures in case of future outbreaks.

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“…Alizadeh et al defined the COVID-19 pandemic as the greatest challenge that humanity has ever faced since the Second World War [ 2 ]. Studies have found that the spread of novel coronavirus has greatly impacted numerous people from over 200 countries [ 3 ]. Simultaneously, this epidemic has also caused a series of social, economic, and environmental impacts worldwide [ 4 ].…”

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Key Influencing Factors and Optimization Strategy of Epidemic Resilience in Urban Communities—A Case Study of Nanjing, China

Cui

Liu

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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COVID-19 has posed a significantly severe impact on both people’s lives and the global economic development. Increasing the community epidemic resilience will considerably improve the national public health emergency response capacity from bottom to top. This study identifies the influencing factors of community epidemic resilience through systematic literature review under the 4R framework, then obtains the relationships of influencing factors through Interpretive structural model, and finally assesses the performance of epidemic resilience using PROMETHEE II method through empirical cases in Nanjing, China. The results show that: (1) Eight factors influencing the epidemic resilience of community are identified, and the economic level plays the root role; (2) Community epidemic resilience can be improved from robustness, rapidity, redundancy and resourcefulness aspects; (3) Through the empirical analysis, the epidemic resilience ranking of community can be displayed (Community D > T > S > F); (4) Additionally, the performance and sensitivity analysis of influencing factors in each community can be demonstrated. (5) Finally, four implications are proposed, namely, allocating public resources rationally, significantly increasing the economic level, ensuring the accuracy of information delivery and conducting disaster learning.

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Application of the health Belief Model to assess community preventive practices against COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia

Cited by 15 publications

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Using the Health Belief Model to Predict Vaccination Intention Among COVID-19 Unvaccinated People in Thai Communities

Using the Health Belief Model to Predict Vaccination Intention Among COVID-19 Unvaccinated People in Thai Communities

COVID-19 and Saudi Arabia: Awareness, Attitude, and Practice

Key Influencing Factors and Optimization Strategy of Epidemic Resilience in Urban Communities—A Case Study of Nanjing, China

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