Health Belief Determinants Of Obesity And Diabetes Mellitus Among Adults In Umuahia South (AMUZU-OLOKORO) And Obingwa (MGBOKO) Local Government Areas Of Abia State.

ABSTRACT

The Health Belief Model is a theoretical model that can be used to guide health promotion and disease prevention programs. It is used to explain and predict individual changes in health behaviors. It is one of the most widely used models for understanding health behaviors (Scarinci et al., 2012). Key elements of the Health Belief Model focus on individual beliefs about health conditions, which predict individual health-related behaviors. The model defines the key factors that influence health behaviors as an individual's perceived threat to sickness or disease (perceived susceptibility), belief of consequence (perceived severity), potential positive benefits of action (perceived benefits), perceived barriers to action, exposure to factors that prompt action (cues to action), and confidence in ability to succeed (self-efficacy), (Li et al., 2019).