The teaching objectives for this lecture are to introduce to you a series of basic perspectives regarding the roles of attitude and knowledge in health. To acheve this, you need to ensure you have met the learning objectives.

First, you must be able to give a balanced account of the role of knowledge in behaviour change. You must be able to define the term “attitudes” and explain how these are believed to relate to both knowledge and behaviour.

You must be able to define “self-efficacy”, and say why it is currently an important concept in behaviour change, and you should be able to think of and illustrate with good examples, barriers to health-related behaviour change. Finally, you could try to think of ways to overcome these different barriers.