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An Evaluation of the Health Belief Model for Predicting Perceived and Actual Dietary Quality 1
Author(s) -
Sapp Stephen G.,
Jensen Helen H.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1998.tb01704.x
Subject(s) - health belief model , psychology , quality (philosophy) , perceived quality , environmental health , social psychology , survey data collection , statistics , marketing , medicine , health education , public health , mathematics , philosophy , nursing , brand awareness , epistemology , business
The health belief model was evaluated for its ability to predict perceived and actual dietary quality. The assessment relied upon data collected from 1,502 respondents by the US. Department of Agriculture in its 1991 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals and the Diet and Health Knowledge Survey. The health belief model provided good prediction of perceived dietary quality, but provided moderate to weak prediction of 7 measures of actual dietary quality that were calculated from food intake records. Implications are suggested for using the health belief model to understand the determinants of dietary quality.