A community health nurse is assessing a client who has expressed wanting to lose weight. The client states, "I need to do this because it is affecting my diabetes." Which stage of the health belief model is the client in?

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The Health Belief Model (HBM) is useful for explaining the behaviors and actions taken by people to prevent illness and injury. It postulates that readiness to act on behalf of a person's own health is predicated on susceptibility, seriousness, benefits, and barriers to losing weight. The client is in the stage of perceived seriousness as linking losing weight to diabetes. Susceptibility would focus on wondering or questioning if weight loss is an issue. Benefits would focus on the client stating why the weight loss is good for them. Barriers would be issues that impair a client's ability to work on weight loss.

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