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Pender's (1987) Health Promotion Model was used as the
conceptual frameworkin this study. The purpose of this study was
to assess the effectiveness ofhealth educational program on
perceived health status, health conception,self-efficacy, and
health-promoting lifestyles among the nursing students. A
Quasi-experimental design was conducted in this study. Ninety-
threenursing students of the third year of the five-year program
were purposely selected from a nursing institute. Two classes
were randomly assigned into two groups, one as the experimental
group (n=48), and the other one as the control group(n=45).
Before the proceeding of health educational program, both groups
had taken the pre-test questionnaire. The experimental group
later participated 4 courses of health educational program but
the control group didn't receive the intervention program.
Thepost-test data were collected in three months latter to
evaluate the effects of the intervention program.
The data were analyzed by using the SPSS/WIN software package.
The results of the study were as the following:
1. After the health educational program, the experimental group
had higher mean scores of perceived health status, health
conception (including role-performance, adaptive, and
eudaimonistic levels), self-efficacy(including health
responsibility, exercise and nutrition factors). and health-
promoting lifestyles(including health responsibility, stress
management,and exercise factors). On the other hand, the
results of the control group were non-significant except for
exercise of health- promoting lifestyles.
2. After the health educational program, the results of the
experimental group were significantly better than those of
the control group in perceived health status, responsibility
and exercise), health conception (role-performance and
adaptation), self-efficacy(health responsibility and
exercise), and health-promoting lifestyles (health
responsibility and stress management), comparing the pre-post
difference between the experimental and the control group.
3. Self-efficacy and health conception were significant
predictors of health-promoting lifestyles, which explain
59.7% of variance. The
findings of this study implied that the health educational
program could improve effectively health-promoting lifestyles
for nursing students in a nursing institute. The model of
educational program can be applied to plan school's health-
promoting activities and design of community health nursing
course.
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