Health Belief Model: Theories Of Cognition And Behavior

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Conceptual Framework Health Belief Model
Health Belief Model has been adopted for this study to help with explaining concepts that have been outlined in this study. Health Belief Model was developed from theories of cognition and behaviour. Concepts in Health Belief include:
Perceived susceptibility: It is one’s opinion of chances of getting a condition.
Perceived severity: This includes one’s opinion of how a condition and its consequences are.
Perceived benefits: It is one’s belief in the efficacy of the advised action to reduce risk or seriousness of impact.
Perceived barriers: It is one’s opinion of the tangible and psychological costs of the advised action.
Cues to action: These are strategies to activate readiness
Self efficacy: …show more content…

The method has been chosen because it will enable the researcher to compare variables under investigation in this study. These variables are parity and time of ANC commencement. Parity is an independent variable as it cannot be altered while time of ANC initiation is the subject under study. In other words the researcher is trying to find out whether parity affects time of ANC commencement. Population and sample
Study population
The study population will comprise two groups: the first group will be first time term pregnant women (36 weeks gestation and above). These women must have attended at least one antenatal care visit and have come to await labour at Dowa and Mponela maternity waiting homes. The second group will be women who have had more than one pregnancy and will have a term pregnancy at the time of study and those who have attended at least one antenatal care visit.
Sampling method
This study will be done using convenient sampling method. This method has been chosen because the study targets a specific group of pregnant women. These women should have been ascertained to have a term pregnancy by gestation hence the reason for coming to await labour and also should have attended at least one ANC visit hence convenient sampling will aid in the recruitment of suitable subjects for the …show more content…

To ensure that ethical issues are fully addressed, the research proposal will be reviewed by an ethics committee from Malawi College of Medicine Research and Ethics Committee which will approve the study before data collection. At Dowa permission will be sought from the District commissioner and the District health officer of Dowa. Study participant’s confidentiality will be maintained by keeping confidentiality in the questionnaires by not requiring their names. Written consent will be given and study objective clearly explained to participants. Participants will also be told that they will be free to withdraw from the study any time they feel like doing

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