HAND OUT
SUBJECT: MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
TOPIC:” MODEL OF PREVENTION”.
PRESENTED BY
MR. PRASHANT MASIH
POST BASIC BSC NSG 2ND YEAR
COLLEGE OF NURSING DHAMTARI
Introduction
 A model is a theoretical way of
understanding a concept or idea.
 Models represent different ways of
approaching complex issues.
Clinical model
 The absence of signs and symptoms of
disease indicates health.
 Illness would be the presence of
conspicuous signs and symptoms of
disease.
 Clinical model is the conventional model
of the discipline of medicine.
Primordial prevention
Role performance model
 Health is indicated by the ability to
perform social roles.
 Role performance includes work, family
and social roles, with performance based
on societal expectations.
 Illness would be the future to perform a
person’s roles at the level of others in
society.
 This model is basis for work and school
physical examination and physician –
excused absences.
 The sick role, in which people can be
excused from performing their social
roles while they are ill, is a vital
component of the role performance
model.
GUIDED BY
MS. SHRISTI NATH
MSc. (N). (CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR)
COLLEGE OF NURSING DHAMTARI
Adaptive model
 The ability to adapt positively to social,
mental, and physiological change is
indicative of health.
 Illness occurs when the person fails to
adapt or becomes in adaptive toward
these changes.
 As the concept of adaptation has entered
other aspects of culture, this model has
become widely accepted.
Levels of Prevention Model
It has been defined in terms of four levels:
Primordial prevention
Primary prevention
Secondary prevention
Tertiary prevention
 Prevention of the emergence or
development of risk factors in
population or countries in which they
have not yet appeared.
 Efforts are directed towards
discouraging children from adopting
harmful lifestyles.
Primary prevention
 An action taken prior to the onset of
disease, which removes the possibility
that the disease will ever occur.
 It includes the concept of positive
health, that encourages the achievement
and maintenance of an “acceptable level
of health that will enable every
individual to lead a socially and
economically productive life.
 Mental Health Promotion Model
Secondary prevention
 Action which halts the progress of a
disease at its incipient stage and prevents
complications.
 The domain of clinical medicine.
 An imperfect tool in the transmission of
disease.
 More expensive and less effective than
primary prevention.
Tertiary prevention
All measures available to reduce or limit
impairment and disabilities, minimize suffering
caused by existing departures from good health
and to promote the patient's adjustment to
irremediable conditions.
The Health Belief Model
 This model is based on the premise that
for a behavioural change to succeed,
individuals must have the incentive to
change, feel threatened by their current
behaviour, and feel that a change will be
beneficial and be at acceptable cost.
 They must also feel competent to
implement that change.
 The purpose of the model is to explain
and predict preventive health behaviour.
 SUMMARY
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 purpose of mental health promotion for
people with mental illness is to ensure
that individuals with mental illness have
power, choice, and control over their
lives and mental health, and that their
communities have the strength and
capacity to support individual
empowerment and recovery.
 The person with mental illness is the
central focus: participating in her/his
community, involved in decision-making
about mental health services, and
choosing which supports are most
appropriate.
There are four key resources which
should be available to the person to
support their mental health:
a) mental health services;
b) family and friends;
c) consumer groups and organizations;
and
d) generic community services and
groups.