A behaviour and disease transmission model: incorporating the Health Belief Model for human behaviour into a simple transmission model.

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dc.citation.issue215
dc.citation.volume21
dc.contributor.authorRyan M
dc.contributor.authorBrindal E
dc.contributor.authorRoberts M
dc.contributor.authorHickson RI
dc.coverage.spatialEngland
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-31T20:13:02Z
dc.date.available2024-07-31T20:13:02Z
dc.date.issued2024-06-05
dc.description.abstractThe health and economic impacts of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 affect all levels of a community from the individual to the governing bodies. However, the spread of an infectious disease is intricately linked to the behaviour of the people within a community since crowd behaviour affects individual human behaviour, while human behaviour affects infection spread, and infection spread affects human behaviour. Capturing these feedback loops of behaviour and infection is a well-known challenge in infectious disease modelling. Here, we investigate the interface of behavioural science theory and infectious disease modelling to explore behaviour and disease (BaD) transmission models. Specifically, we incorporate a visible protective behaviour into the susceptible-infectious-recovered-susceptible (SIRS) transmission model using the socio-psychological Health Belief Model to motivate behavioural uptake and abandonment. We characterize the mathematical thresholds for BaD emergence in the BaD SIRS model and the feasible steady states. We also explore, under different infectious disease scenarios, the effects of a fully protective behaviour on long-term disease prevalence in a community, and describe how BaD modelling can investigate non-pharmaceutical interventions that target-specific components of the Health Belief Model. This transdisciplinary BaD modelling approach may reduce the health and economic impacts of future epidemics.
dc.description.confidentialfalse
dc.edition.editionJun 2024
dc.format.pagination20240038-
dc.identifier.author-urlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38835247
dc.identifier.citationRyan M, Brindal E, Roberts M, Hickson RI. (2024). A behaviour and disease transmission model: incorporating the Health Belief Model for human behaviour into a simple transmission model.. J R Soc Interface. 21. 215. (pp. 20240038-).
dc.identifier.doi10.1098/rsif.2024.0038
dc.identifier.eissn1742-5662
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn1742-5689
dc.identifier.number20240038
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/71176
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherThe Royal Society
dc.relation.isPartOfJ R Soc Interface
dc.rights(c) 2024 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectHealth Belief Model
dc.subjectbehaviour modelling
dc.subjectepidemiology
dc.subjecttransmission modelling
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectSARS-CoV-2
dc.subjectHealth Belief Model
dc.subjectHealth Behavior
dc.titleA behaviour and disease transmission model: incorporating the Health Belief Model for human behaviour into a simple transmission model.
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.elements-id489239
pubs.organisational-groupCollege of Health
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