Pender’s Health Promotion Model: An Overview

NURSING THEORY
Pender’s Health
Promotion Model

DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY
 In the current assignment, the health
promotion model suggested by Pender
has been taken into consideration.
 The model has been developed from
expectancy value theory and social
cognitive theory.
 The model was developed by Pender
in order to prevent the occurrence of
disease in individuals by giving them
access to quality life
 The model focused upon the
development of motivation for picking
positive health behaviours
(McCutcheon, Schaar & Parker, 2016)
 It helped in the development of
evidence based nursing care

SUPPORT FOR THEORY
 The theorist wanted to provide a
person centered care
 It was aimed at improving the
knowledge regarding health within
individuals.
 It was found that most of the the
physicians at their times of need
(Chiou, Hsu & Hung, 2016)
 It aims towards a positive
dynamic health (Khoshnood,
Rayyani& Tirgari, 2018)
 Reduce the overall expenditure on
general healthcare (Zhang et al.,
2018)

MOTIVATION FOR THE
THEORY
 The set of variables for behavior specific knowledge
have important motivational significance (Callaghan,
2016)
 The changed behaviors resulted in improved quality of
life (Goodarzi-Khoigani et al., 2018)
 Enhanced health functional objectives

APPROACH TO HEALTH
PROMOTION MODEL
 The health promotion model
is psychological model that
attempts to predict or
explain health behaviors
 By taking a recommended
action negative health
outcome can be avoided
(Clark et al., 2015)

IDEA OF THE HEALTH
PROMOTION MODEL
 The health promotion model (HPM) focuses upon
three important aspects-
 Individual characteristic experiences
 Effect of behavioral specific cognitions
 Behavioral outcomes
 The model is based upon a number of assumptions
such as-
 Individual need to actively regulate their health
behavior (Henry, 2017)
 Individuals are progressively transferred by the
environment over time
 Health professionals constitute a part of the inter-
professional environment (Heydari &
Khorashadizadeh, 2014)