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.