Abstract :
Abstract Background: Maintaining a healthy weight is difficult for most people. The build-up of extra body fat is characterized as overweight and obesity, a global health pandemic, as seen by the increasing incidence of overweight and obesity around the world. Material and Method: True experimental design, using a randomized controlled trial method, is carried out throughout the current study to identify the efficacy of health beliefs model through intervention in changing employees’ behaviors related to weight control at university of Mosul for the period from January 10 th 2024 to March 15th 2024.The study sample consisted of 80 employees, who participated in a training program for behaviors change. Results: Findings of this study showed that the interaction based on the health beliefs model had a significant difference between the pre and post-test at P- value (0.05) and the size effect was (0.557) in favor of the beliefs for the study group, and there was a significant difference in the pre and post-test 1&2 at P-value (0.05). The differences between the averages of behavior for the two groups were (0.364) in the pre-test and post test1 and (0.328) in the post-test 2 in favor of the experiment group. Conclusions: This study concluded that health intervention based on the health beliefs model shows the importance of maintaining weight and a positive influence on employees' health beliefs and behaviors towards weight control.
Keyword :
Keywords: Health Beliefs Model, Beliefs, Healthy Weight