The purpose of this study is to compare and verify the Health Belief Model and the Theory of Planned Behavior in screening behavior of breast and cervical cancer.
This survey is conducted on persons aged 40~70 years in early medical check-up who are s...
The purpose of this study is to compare and verify the Health Belief Model and the Theory of Planned Behavior in screening behavior of breast and cervical cancer.
This survey is conducted on persons aged 40~70 years in early medical check-up who are selected randomly in J city, Kyungsangnam-do. Moreover, all information are collected by trained investigators via home visit.
All participants involve in this study were 502 persons. Among them, responsers in answer to questionnaire about medical examination on the breast and cervical cancer were 238 and 264 persons, respectively.
The results are as follows. First, it was found that the Theory of Planned Behavior is more proper than the Health Belief Model in expecting the screening behavior of the breast cancer. Second, it is also found that both the Health Belief Model and the Theory of Planned Behavior are not suitable for explaining the screening behavior of the cervical cancer. Third, each step is verified by the Health Belief Model and the Theory of Planned Behavior, classifying the Transtheoretical Model into regular group and irregular group. It thus appears that the most significant factor in explaining regular group of the breast cancer is self-efficacy while those are health motivation, self-efficacy, and intention in irregular group. The most significant factor in the cervical cancer is self-efficacy in regular group and attitude in irregular group.
Finally, results and suggestions obtain in this study is discussed, associating previous researches.