Accepted for/Published in: Interactive Journal of Medical Research
Date Submitted: Aug 29, 2023
Date Accepted: Jun 26, 2024
Health Locus of Control and Medical Behavioral Interventions: Systematic Review and Recommendations
ABSTRACT
Background:
Health Locus of Control is a theory that describes how individuals perceive different forces that affect their lives. The concept of a Locus of Control can affect an individual’s likelihood to commit to behaviors related to their health.
Objective:
In this study, we explore the literature on the relationships be-tween Health Locus of Control and Medical Behavioral Interventions.
Methods:
We utilize the PRISMA methodology and perform analysis of fifty papers related to the topic.
Results:
Our findings explore the in-fluence of different levels of health locus of control along with the importance of both patient and health-related context when assessing the relationships between Health Locus of Control con-structs and likelihood of health-behavior change. The findings show that different constructs re-lated to Health Locus of Control can act as reliable predictors for patient responses to medical behavioral interventions.
Conclusions:
We propose guidelines for individuals designing medical behavioral interventions so that they can make use of these relationships linked to Health Locus of Control.
Citation
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