Which statement best captures Pender's Health Promotion Model?

• A. It focuses on increasing clients' level of well-being and helps them associate positive feelings toward health-promoting actions.
• B. It is primarily about curing diseases through medications.
• C. It ignores behavior-related variables.
• D. It emphasizes hospital-based interventions over community wellness.

Answer: (A)

Pender's Health Promotion Model centers on promoting health and well-being through voluntary actions that individuals take to improve their health. It treats health as a positive, dynamic state that people strive for by engaging in behaviors they believe will benefit them, with positive feelings and attitudes toward those actions reinforcing continued engagement. Behavior is shaped by factors such as perceived benefits and barriers, self-efficacy, and the social and physical environment, all guiding decisions to adopt healthier lifestyles. The statement that best captures this is the one about increasing a client’s level of well-being and helping them associate positive feelings with health-promoting actions, because it reflects both the aim of health promotion and the motivational affect that helps sustain healthful behaviors. Choices that describe curing diseases with medications, ignoring behavior, or prioritizing hospital-based interventions over community wellness do not align with the model’s emphasis on proactive, health-promoting actions across settings.