Health Promotion Model Analysis

This study will apply the Health Promotion Model (HPM) from the nursing theory and Polyvegal theory of Steve Porges. Music will promote the health of the floor nurses by decreasing their anxiety and depression levels, so that the concept of HPM will be effective to use in this study. Nola J. Pender intended the HPM nursing theory in order to be a complementary counterpart to models of health protection ("Health Promotion Model - Nursing Theory," n.d.). This model defines health as a positive dynamic state rather than simply the absence of disease. The main purpose of the HPM is to attain a positive health outcome such as optimal well-being, personal fulfillment, and productive living ("Health Promotion Model - Nursing Theory," n.d.). The three areas that Pender’s model focuses are individual characteristics and experiences, behavior-specific cognitions and affect, and behavioral outcomes ("Health Promotion Model - Nursing …show more content…
This theory focuses on subjective feeling states or emotions occurring prior to, during and following a specific health behavior, interpersonal influences, situational influences, commitment to a plan of action, perceived benefits of action, perceived barriers to action, perceived self-efficacy, and so forth. This study will apply the music as a health promoting behavior. The floor nurses will have to understand the interpersonal influences, situational influences, perceived barriers to participate in the music class, perceived benefits of the music class, and commitment to participate in the music class in order to use music as a stress management tool to reduce their anxiety and depression levels. That is why; the concepts of the health promotion model nursing theory will be applied in this