adopting self-medication prevention behaviors according to health belief model constructs

Background: self-medication is one of the most important social, health, and economic challenges of many countries, especially iran. objectives: therefore, this study aimed to predict the adoption of self-medication prevention behaviors according to health belief model (hbm) constructs in the women attending health centers of bandar abbas, hormozgan province, iran. methods: the participants of the present investigation were 180 women residing in bandar abbas in 2016. convenient sampling method was applied to select the participants. data were collected through a questionnaire containing questions on demographic information, as well as the hbm constructs. the collected data were analyzed by spss version 19 using pearson’s correlation coefficient and logistic regression. results: the mean age of the participants was 30.8 ± 8.6 years. among the hbm constructs, it was found that there was a positive relationship between the perceived susceptibility and perceived severity that the relationship was 0.231 at the significant 2-tailed level of 0.01. while, there was a negative correlation between the perceived barriers and perceived benefits that the relationship was -0.231 at the significant 2-tailed level of 0.01. the results of multiple regression analysis represented that considering hbm constructs, only r^2 = 0.048 of the self-medication preventive behaviors could be explained (r^2 = 0.048, p = 0.042). conclusions: regarding the results of this study, only four percent of health belief model constructs could predict the preventive behavior in self-medication. based on the weak prediction of model constructs and the findings of this study, there is a need to focus on the benefits, perceived susceptibility, and perceived barriers in designing health promotion programs.