What is it about?
What is important to change people's health behavior? Risk appeal? Improving self-efficacy or trust for physician? This study investigated it by 1195 diabetic patients. This study also tried to clarify if there is the "side effect" of health promotion, that is, depression.
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Why is it important?
Risk perception worsened behavioral changes in terms of food habits and depression, whereas self-efficacy and trust improved food habits, exercise, and depression; trust improved exercise and depression. From these facts, self-efficacy and trust appear to be more beneficial than risk perception for positive behavioral changes and for improving depression in diabetic patients. However, their influence on behavioral changes may be different according to the types of behaviors
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I hope this article give people a chance to consider that "side effect" can arise when inappropriate approach is taken in health promotion. Clinicians should train themselves to increase patient's self-efficacy and trust for physician in health promotion.
Hissei Imai
Kyoto Daigaku
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This page is a summary of: Risk perception, self-efficacy, trust for physician, depression, and behavior modification in diabetic patients, Journal of Health Psychology, July 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1359105317718057.
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