AN EXTENSION OF THE HEALTH BELIEF MODEL TO INCLUDE THE CONSTRUCT LEARNED HELPLESSNESS (SMOKING).
Contributors: Indiana University School of Nursing.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether the addition of the construct Learned Helplessness to the Health Belief Model would improve ability to predict smoking behavior. Secondary aims were to improve the reliability and validity of tools used to measure the constructs. Eighty-three participants completed the tools at the beginning of seven-week or four-week American Lung Association smoking clinics. Smoking behavior was measured at the beginning and end of clinics. With seven-week or four-week group membership added as a predictor, the Health Belief Model accounted for 17% of the variance in smoking behavior at the end of the clinic. When Learned Helplessness was added, explained variance rose to only 22%. All scales had reliability coefficients above.70. Support was found for the construct validity of Champion's (1981) Health Belief Model scale but not for the construct validity of the Learned Helplessness tool.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-01, Section: B, page: 0122.

Thesis (D.N.S.)--INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING, 1986.

School code: 0815.