Association of Exercise Behavior Change and the Health Belief Model
Location
Poster Session 1 (Henderson Library)
Session Format
Poster Presentation
Your Campus
Statesboro Campus- Henderson Library, April 20th
Academic Unit
Department of Health Sciences and Kinesiology
Research Area Topic:
Public Health & Well Being - Health Informatics
Co-Presenters and Faculty Mentors or Advisors
Keagan Kiely
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: COVID-19 has had an immense impact. Research has documented its impact on the decrease in physical activity at a population level (Steele at al. 2021). The extent of exercise behavior change in college aged students had not been well documented. Health Belief Model (HBM) highlights how the relationship of an individual's perceived susceptibility, severity, and benefits and barriers lends to the proclivity of particular behaviors (Abraham and Sheeran, 2015). This study investigated the relationship of exercise behavior change, and the HBM in college-aged individuals. The HBM model has not been used to demonstrate how Covid-19 has affected exercise behavior change, so this study is able to see on a more depth level with a gauge to see how much someone felt affected and not a general outlook on how physical activity was affected by Covid-19. METHODS: A cross-sectional design using snowball sampling through a survey was used to gather survey responses assessing demographics, HBM score, and exercise behavior change. RESULTS: Logistic regression showed that an increase in HBM score lead to statistically significant odds of having a greater change in negative exercise behavior change. (OR = 1.135, X2(1) = 4.996, p = 0.025). The relationship between HBM constructs and exercise change showed to be significant from logistic regression (p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: College-aged students that had greater HBM score, signifying higher levels of perceived severity, susceptibility of infection, greater perceived barriers and lower perceived benefit to exercise, were more likely to have a decrease in exercise behavior. Barriers are shown to be highest contributor to decrease in exercise. To offset the regression of physical activity, regular information about Covid-19 would influence a higher HBM score the most.
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Presentation Type and Release Option
Presentation (Restricted to Georgia Southern)
Start Date
4-20-2022 10:00 AM
End Date
4-20-2022 11:30 AM
Recommended Citation
Crow, Clair L., "Association of Exercise Behavior Change and the Health Belief Model" (2022). GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholars Symposium. 19.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/research_symposium/2022/2022/19
Association of Exercise Behavior Change and the Health Belief Model
Poster Session 1 (Henderson Library)
INTRODUCTION: COVID-19 has had an immense impact. Research has documented its impact on the decrease in physical activity at a population level (Steele at al. 2021). The extent of exercise behavior change in college aged students had not been well documented. Health Belief Model (HBM) highlights how the relationship of an individual's perceived susceptibility, severity, and benefits and barriers lends to the proclivity of particular behaviors (Abraham and Sheeran, 2015). This study investigated the relationship of exercise behavior change, and the HBM in college-aged individuals. The HBM model has not been used to demonstrate how Covid-19 has affected exercise behavior change, so this study is able to see on a more depth level with a gauge to see how much someone felt affected and not a general outlook on how physical activity was affected by Covid-19. METHODS: A cross-sectional design using snowball sampling through a survey was used to gather survey responses assessing demographics, HBM score, and exercise behavior change. RESULTS: Logistic regression showed that an increase in HBM score lead to statistically significant odds of having a greater change in negative exercise behavior change. (OR = 1.135, X2(1) = 4.996, p = 0.025). The relationship between HBM constructs and exercise change showed to be significant from logistic regression (p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: College-aged students that had greater HBM score, signifying higher levels of perceived severity, susceptibility of infection, greater perceived barriers and lower perceived benefit to exercise, were more likely to have a decrease in exercise behavior. Barriers are shown to be highest contributor to decrease in exercise. To offset the regression of physical activity, regular information about Covid-19 would influence a higher HBM score the most.
