The Health Belief Model: A Decade Later

Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.

1977 • 36,868 citations

Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.

1977 • 31,678 citations

Understanding Attitudes and Predicting Social Behavior

1980 • 25,812 citations

Historical Origins of the Health Belief Model

1974 • 5,177 citations

Health Belief Model and Personal Health Behavior

1976 • 3,081 citations

The Health Belief Model and Sick Role Behavior

1974 • 2,049 citations

The Health Belief Model and Prediction of Dietary Compliance: A Field Experiment

1977 • 777 citations

Self-efficacy and relapse in smoking cessation programs.

1981 • 627 citations

The Health Belief Model: Origins and Correlates in Psychological Theory

1974 • 602 citations

Selected Psychosocial Models and Correlates of Individual Health-Related Behaviors

1977 • 521 citations

RANDOMISED CLINICAL TRIAL OF STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING MEDICATION COMPLIANCE IN PRIMARY HYPERTENSION

1975 • 507 citations

Self-efficacy and relapse in smoking cessation programs.

1981 • 484 citations

Improved Outcomes in Hypertension After Physician Tutorials

1976 • 391 citations

Social Networks, Health Beliefs, and Preventive Health Behavior

1977 • 369 citations

A new approach to explaining sick-role behavior in low-income populations.

1974 • 360 citations

Strategies for enhancing patient compliance

1980 • 357 citations

Bringing the models together: An empirical approach to combining variables used to explain health actions

1980 • 291 citations

The Relationship Between the Health Belief Model and Compliance of Persons with Diabetes Mellitus

1980 • 269 citations

Compliance with a medical regimen for asthma: a test of the health belief model.

1978 • 226 citations

Motivational and Behavioral Effects of Modifying Health Beliefs

1970 • 215 citations

The Health Belief Model and Illness Behavior

1974 • 206 citations

Womenʼs Health Beliefs about Breast Cancer and Breast Self-Examination

1977 • 173 citations

Psychosocial Factors Affecting Adherence to Medical Regimens in a Group of Hemodialysis Patients

1982 • 166 citations

A field experiment to evaluate various outcomes of continuity of physician care.

1974 • 165 citations

Explaining the Low Use of Health Services by the Poor: Costs, Attitudes, or Delivery Systems?

1978 • 162 citations

Structural and Social Psychological Factors in the Decision to Seek Medical Care for Symptoms

1981 • 162 citations

Psychosocial Determinants of Immunization Behavior in a Swine Influenza Campaign

1979 • 160 citations

The Relationship of Health Beliefs, Health Locus of Control, and Self Concept to the Practice of Breast Self-Examination in Adult Women

1982 • 160 citations

Scales for Measuring Health Belief Model Dimensions: A Test of Predictive Value, Internal Consistency, and Relationships among Beliefs

1977 • 151 citations

Some influences on public participation in a genetic screening program

1975 • 145 citations

Do Postcard Reminders Improve Influenza Vaccination Compliance?

1982 • 129 citations

Patient adherence to antihypertensive medical regimens

1977 • 121 citations

The relationship of health beliefs and a postcard reminder to influenza vaccination.

1979 • 113 citations

Intervention strategies to improve compliance with medical regimens by ambulatory hemodialysis patients

1981 • 110 citations

Perception of Severity of Disease and Health Locus of Control in Compliant and Noncompliant Diabetic Patients

1980 • 104 citations

Development of Scales to Measure Beliefs of Diabetic Patients

1983 • 93 citations

The impact of patients' perceptions of high blood pressure on attendance at screening

1982 • 93 citations

The structure and reliability of health belief indices.

1981 • 88 citations

The Effect of Income on Use of Preventive Care: An Evaluation of Alternative Explanations

1979 • 87 citations

Impact of Patient Perceptions on Compliance with Treatment for Hypertension

1978 • 84 citations

Health beliefs and smoking patterns in heart patients and their wives: a longitudinal study.

1977 • 80 citations

Driving While Under the Influence of Alcohol: Relationship to Attitudes and Beliefs in a College Population

1981 • 73 citations

The relationship of health beliefs and knowledge to exercise compliance in patients after coronary bypass.

1980 • 69 citations

Mothers' health beliefs and children's clinic visits

1977 • 68 citations

Factors Associated with Utilization of the Swine Flu Vaccination Program among Senior Citizens in Tompkins County

1979 • 63 citations

Psychological and Social Factors as Predictors of Medical Behavior

1976 • 57 citations

Health beliefs and smoking behavior.

1981 • 55 citations

Breast self-examinations: Who does them and why

1979 • 53 citations

Participation of Senior Citizens in the Swine Flu Inoculation Program: An Analysis of Health Belief Model Variables in Preventive Health Behavior

1979 • 49 citations

Social psychological correlates of health behavior: Knowledge of breast self-examination techniques among black women

1977 • 37 citations

The health belief model and utilization of ambulatory care services

1979 • 36 citations

Relationship of wives' preventive health orientation to their beliefs about heart disease in husbands.

1977 • 11 citations

Women'S Health Beliefs About Breast Cancer And Self-Examination

1981 • 3 citations