Nola Pender - Health Promotional Model Flashcards
Theory of Nola Pender
Health Promotional Model
Theorist of Health Promotional Model
Nola Pender
Nursing Lecture, Scientist, and Researcher / Professor Emeritus / Living Legend
Nola Pender
Born on August 16, 1941 at Michigan, United States
Nola Pender
- Persons seek to create conditions of living through which they can express their unique their human health potential / Persons have the capacity for reflective self-awareness, including assessment of their own competencies / Persons value growth in directions viewed as positive and attempt to achieve a personally acceptable balance between change and stability / Individuals seek to regulate their own behavior actively / Individuals in all their biopsychosocial complexity interact with the environment, progressively transforming the environment and being transformed over time / Health professionals constitute a part of the interpersonal environment, which influences persons throughout their life span / Self-initiated reconfiguration of person-environment interactive patterns is essential to behavior change
Person, Health, and Environment
Health Promotional Model
Unique personal characteristics and experiences affecting subsequent actions
Set of Variables for Behavior
Important motivational significance
Health-Promoting Behavior
Desired behavioral outcome
Final Behavioral Demand
Influenced by immediate competing demand and named preferences
Prior Related Behavior
Frequency of the same behavior
Health Promotion
Behavior motivated by desire to increase well-being
Health Protection / Illness Prevention
Active avoidance of the illness
Individual Characteristics and Experiences
Prior-related behavior and personal factors
Behavior-Specific Cognitions and Affect
Benefits of action
Behavioral Outcomes
Commitment to action