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Such understanding is crucial for designing therapeutic and preventive behavioral and psychopharmacological interventions.
Similarly, persons with lower incomes reported practicing fewer preventive behavioral measures.
As noted by other authors (14 – 16 ), risk perception is only one of many factors that directly contribute to practicing preventive behavioral measures.
Single-session psychological debriefing [ 7, 8] as well as multiple sessions of preventive Behavioral Therapy [ 9] administered within 3 months following traumatic events do not reduce distress, or prevent PTSD.
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However, information may be indirectly associated with preventive behavior via behavioral skills.
Motivations also contribute indirectly to preventive behavior by affecting behavioral skills.
A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess HIV/AIDS related information, motivation, behavioral skills and preventive behaviors among senior high school students in three coastal cities in China.
The model assumes that an individual must be well-informed, motivated, and possess the necessary self-efficacy behavioral skills to initiate preventive behavior [ 21].
The model (see Figure 1) proposes that HIV preventive behavior of any kind is a function of HIV prevention information, HIV prevention motivation, and HIV prevention behavioral skills [ 10, 11].
School-based educational approaches can serve as important tools in disseminating information about HIV/AIDS and preventive practices to adolescents, but also in teaching the behavioral skills needed for HIV preventive behavior (Kalichman & Hospers, 1997).
The IMB model developed by Fisher and his colleagues has shown that HIV prevention information, motivation, and behavioral skills are the fundamental determinants of HIV preventive behavior [ 20].
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