Using the Nola Pender’s Model in Health Promotion towards Hypertension of Employees in Nineveh province

Abstract

Background: Hypertension (HTN), described as greater than 140mmHg systolic blood pressure (SBP) or larger than 90mmHg diastolic blood pressure (DBP), is a serious public health problem across the world.

Methods: True experimental design by using the randomized controlled trial approach is conducted to determine the efficacy of pander's health promotion based model on intervention for enhancing eating behaviors university of Mosul hypertension employees' for period from 26-November 2022 to 1-March 2023.

Results: Findings of this study depict that there were statistically significant differences among all composed of the Pender's Health Promotion Model on Intervention for Enhancing Eating Behaviors Hypertensive Employees. On the contrary, the perceived barrier was the only belief that showed no significant during three time (pre_test, post_test1, post_test2).

Conclusion: This study concluded that Health intervention through the health promotion  of pander model demonstrates the importance of hypertension prevention and has a positive impact on employees' perceptions of perceived , perceived benefits, perceived self_efficacy, social support and activity related effect of unhealthy hypertension advised employees to using  their eating behavior  through a healthy diet, physical activity and other healthy behaviors to hypertension control to prevent different health hazards