Health belief
People are often afraid of negative health information
and tend to avoid it. Information, such as the fact that a
disease leads to death when it further develops or is left
unnoticed, causes negative emotions, such as helplessness
(McCloud et al., 2013). Therefore, HISB depends on
certain health beliefs, such as health risk, prognosis, and
stigma (Tu and Hargraves, 2003). At the same time, it
is also not unaffected by socio-contextual factors and
psychosocial causes. Hence, better understanding of
individuals’ social conditions must be promoted.