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| What was the aim of Becker's study? |
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Definition
| To use the Health Belief Model to explain 111 mothers' adherance to a drug regimen for their asthmatic children |
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| What was the methodology of Becker's study? |
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A correlation between beliefs reported from a 45 minute interview with self reported administration of asthma medicine
For some participants, a blood test was also used to test the level of medication |
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| What questions were the mothers asked in Becker's study |
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Definition
About their perception of their child's susceptability to illness and asthma
their beliefs about how serious asthma is
how much their child's asthma interfered with the child's education and mother's activities and caused embarassement
faith in doctors and medication |
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| What factors correlated positively with medical compliance in Becker's study? |
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Definition
a mother's belief about her child's susceptability to asthma attacks
a mother's persception of the child having a serious asthma condition
the child's asthma interferring with the mother's activities
married women
mother having had a good education |
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| What factors correlated negatively to medical compliance in Becker's study? |
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Definition
disruption of daily activites
inaccessibility of chemists
child complaining about the medication
prescribed schedule for administering medication |
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Term
| What was the sample in Rotter's study into locus of control |
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Definition
| six pieces of research into individual perceptions of ability to control outcomes based on reinforcement |
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Definition
| participants who felt they had control over the situation were more likely to show behaviours that would enable them to cope with potential threats, than participants who thought that the chance or other non-controllable factors determined the effects of their behaviours |
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Term
| What was the aim of Bandura and Adams' study? |
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Definition
| To assess the self efficacy of paitents undergoing systematic desensitisation in relation to their behaviour with previously phobic objects |
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| Who were the participants in Bandura and Adams' study? |
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Definition
10 snake phobic paitents who replied to an adverstisment in a newspaper
9 females, 1 male aged 19-57 years |
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Term
| What was the procedure in Bandura and Adams' study? |
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Definition
pre test assessment - assessed for avoidence behaviour behaviour towards a boa constrictor, fear arousal rating 1-10 and efficacy expectations
systematic desensitisation
post-test assessment |
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Term
| What did Bandura and Adams find? |
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Definition
| higher levels of post-test self efficacy were found to correlate with higher levels of interaction with snakes |
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