The role of health beliefs and health literacy in women's health promoting behaviours based on the health belief model: a descriptive study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health literacy and health beliefs are factors that can effectively contribute to adoption of preventive behaviors among women. The present study was done to explore the role of health beliefs and health literacy in women's health promoting behaviors based on the health belief model (HBM).

Methods

The descriptive study was conducted in 2020 on 431 female students of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences (RUMS) who had been selected through stratified sampling. Data collection tool was a questionnaire which covered eight demographic information, 41 health literacy questions and 50 researcher-developed questions of health belief based on HBM constructs. Data were collected electronically and SPSS version 20 and independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlati

SUBMITTER: Ghorbani-Dehbalaei M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8684276 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature