Evaluation of the health belief model

you can identify where the person is going wrong and try to help

Apply to everyday situations.

As it considers other factors such as culture.

You can apply it to an individual.

Evidence to support this theory is in Becker's study.

Makes assumptions that you can change the way a person thinks.

Because it doesn't take into account biological factors.

Outdated because the model was made in 1954 so may not be applicable to everyday life as society has changed a great deal since then.

Large sample used so representative of the target population.

   Increased validity because blood tests were used to test the level of medication providing further evidence for what the mothers said during the interview.

  Cannot establish a cause and effect relationship just a correlation.

§       may have occurred because they do not want to been seen as bad mothers’.

  May have given answers which they think the interviewer expects.

  May have given answers which they think the interviewer expects.