Table 1.

Comprehensive overview of educational content aligned with health belief model constructs

Construct	Definition	Goal	Behavioural goal
Perceived benefits	An individual’s conclusion as to whether the new behaviour is better than what they are already doing (25)	Learners’ acquaintance with the benefits of UTI prevention	1. The learner should be able to state at least 4 benefits of preventing UTIs in elderly diabetic women. 2. The learner should be able to express the importance of preventing UTIs in elderly diabetic women.
Perceived barriers	An individual’s opinion as to what will stop them from adopting the new behaviour (25)	Learners’ acquaintance with perceived barriers to performing the promotion of UTI prevention behaviours	1. The learner should be able to express the perceived barriers to performing UTI prevention behaviours. 2. The learner should be able to prepare a schedule to perform UTI prevention behaviours.
Perceived severity	An individual’s judgment of the severity of the disease (25)	Increasing perceived severity in learners to perform UTI prevention behaviours	1. The learner should be able to express the negative consequences of UTIs in elderly diabetic women. 2. The learner should know the importance of UTIs in elderly diabetic women.
Perceived susceptibility	An individual’s assessment of their chances of getting a disease or condition (25)	Increasing the perceived susceptibility in learners to perform UTI prevention behaviours	1. The learner should be able to enumerate at least 2 cases of diabetic elderly women more susceptible to UTIs.
Self-efficacy	Personal belief in the ability to do something (25)	The learner’s acquaintance with the concept of self-efficacy and ways to increase it to perform UTI prevention behaviours	1. The learners should be able to enumerate their self-efficacy cases in UTI prevention behaviours. 2. The learners should be able to enumerate their personal encouraging and strengthening factors to perform UTI prevention behaviours.

UTI – urinary tract infection