Variables in Behavior Change
Thoughts and ideas inside a person’s mind have significant influence on an individual’s health behaviors. These variables interact with social and environmental factors and it is the synergy among all these influences that operate on behavior.
Knowledge: An intellectual acquaintance with facts,truth, or principles gained by sight, experience, or report.
Skills : The ability to do something well, arising from talent, training, or practice.
Belief : Acceptance of or confidence in an alleged fact or body of facts as true or right without positive knowledge or proof; a perceived truth.
Attitude: Manner, disposition, feeling, or position toward a person or thing.
Values: Ideas, ideals, customs that arouse an emotional response for or against them.