Relationship between healthy lifestyle behaviors and health locus of control and health ‐specific self‐efficacy in university students

ConclusionHealth‐specific self‐efficacy is an important prerequisite for changes in healthy lifestyle behaviors, which supports Pender's model. The subscales of the health locus of control vary in their effects on healthy lifestyle behaviors, which partly supports Pender's model. Nurses, by using this model, can examine ways of improving these cognitive–perceptual factors and implement health education programs that are directed towards improving them in young persons.
Source: Japan Journal of Nursing Science - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research