Why People Use Health Services

Perceived subject outcomes and impact on health-related quality of life associated with diet using the new Food Benefits Assessment (FBA©) questionnaire: development and psychometric validation

“…In addition, this would facilitate physicians' approaches and arguments when having to prescribe a new or modified diet to an individual. According to the Health Belief Model, which states that benefits have to be perceived for someone to adopt a healthy or preventive behaviour (24,25) , it is indeed likely that subjects will be more willing to adopt a healthy nutritional behaviour if they can perceive its positive effects and are satisfied with it. In order to consolidate and further widen its use, future work will consist of determining the FBA's discriminatory properties in other specific population settings such as IBS patients, between two distinct regimens or in an identical regimen but at two different time points.…”

It’s hard to reach the “hard-to-reach”: the challenges of recruiting people who do not access preventative healthcare services into interview studies

“…Theories from behavioural science have enabled us to understand some of the factors that may affect participation generally, such as individuals’ attitudes, perceived barriers, perceived risks and social norms (Ajzen, 1991; Rosenstock, 1966). Furthermore, The Preventative Health Model (PHM; Myers et al, 1994) posits a range of factors that may affect decision making about taking preventative action, such as background factors (i.e., demographic characteristics, medical history, past health behaviour), representation factors (i.e., severity of health condition, susceptibility, curability, worry, salience and coherence), social influence factors (i.e., the clinician-patient relationship, social norms, health locus of control) and program factors (i.e., promotional communications).…”

Patient factors associated with initiation of behavioral weight loss treatment: a prospective observational study in an integrated care setting

“…Nonetheless, existing research [13] and health behavior change theories including the Health Belief Model [15] and the Theory of Planned Behavior [16] suggest that factors that may impact weight loss treatment use include social norms about treatment use, beliefs about the benefits of the treatment, anxiety, barriers to treatment use, and self-efficacy for weight Policy: Healthcare systems should provide training to providers in communication styles that convey respect for patient autonomy and should consider offering evidence-based behavioral weight loss treatments with varying features to appeal to varying patient treatment preferences.…”