According to Fawcett and DeSanto-Madeya (2013) the C-T-E system based practice assists nurses to comprehend important …show more content…
Out of the 29.1 million people affected with diabetes 21 million were diagnosed, and 8.1 million were undiagnosed (ADA, 2016). The ADA (2016) reported that promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors can lower or eliminate one’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
The term health promotion is a concept that is often incorporated in the healthcare field. According to Chinn and Kramer (2015) a concept is defined a multifaceted mental expression of an experience. The identified concept for this evidence based change project was “health promotion”. The World Health Organization (2016) defines the term health promotion as having the capability to empower individuals to take control, and to improve their health. The Oxford English Dictionary (n.d.) defines the word health as the condition of a person’s body or mind; the state of being free from illness or injury. Promotion is defined as the activity that inspires individuals to believe in the value or importance of something, or that assists something to succeed (Oxford English Dictionary, n.d.). According to the Online Medical Dictionary (2013), health promotion is defined as inspiring individual’s personal behaviors to improve physical and psychosocial health, through health information, preventive programs, and access to medical …show more content…
Pender in 1982 and revised 1996 (Ho, Berggren, & Dahlborg-Lyckhage, 2010). The HPM model was developed to be part of a corresponding complement to models of health protection. The HPM consists of three key components. These three key components are: individual characteristics and experiences, behavior-specific cognitions and affect, and behavioral outcomes (Ho, Berggren, & Dahlborg-Lyckhage, 2010). The HPM is a descriptive model that evaluates health behavior and accentuates the role of potential outcomes in the development of health behaviors (Ho, Berggren, & Dahlborg-Lyckhage,