| Hussein et al. (2016), Egypt | To assess the effect of application of Pender’s health promotion model on management of hypertension among adults in rural area | Quasi -experimental design | Individual characteristics and experiences, behavior-specific cognitions and affect, and behavioral outcomes | Personal factors―6 closed ended questions, Janet (2011), prior related behaviors-Hill-bone blood pressure medication compliance scale, Kim, Hill, Bone, & Levine (2000), behavior-specific cognition and affects- behavior-specific cognition and affects scale, Angelina (2012), health promoting behavior (behavior outcome)―health promoting behavior scale, Glenn (2010), and physical measurements― anthropometric measurements and blood pressure | 150 adults with hypertension aged 18 - 64 in Egypt | Statistical significant improvement among the study group than the control group at the post test of health-promoting behavior (P < 0.05). The highest mean score was in the posttest of nutrition dimension followed by medication adherence, stress management and physical activity but smoking had no statistically significant improvement (P < 0.05) |
| Rahimian et al. (2016), Iran | To examine the impact of performing health promotion model intervention on physical activity of the health volunteers | Cross-sectional design | Perceived benefits, self-efficacy and health-promoting behaviors, behavior, physical activity, commitment, emotion and situational influences and perceived barriers | Perceived benefits, self-efficacy and health-promoting behaviors, behavior, physical activity, commitment, emotion and situational influences. and perceived ―international physical activity questionnaire (IPAQ) (n.d) | 80 health volunteers in Iran | Significant difference between the mean scores of physical activity and other structures of HPM in the experimental group after the intervention and its score before intervention (P < 0.001) |
| Khodaveisi et al. (2017), Iran | To investigate the effect of Pender’s health promotion model (HPM) to improve the nutritional behavior of overweight and obese women | Quasi -experimental design | Perceived benefits, perceived barriers, perceived self-efficacy, behavior-related affect, interpersonal influences, situational influences, commitment to action, and nutritional behavior | Perceived benefits, perceived barriers, perceived self-efficacy, behavior-related affect, interpersonal influences, situational influences, commitment to action and nutritional behavior―researchers developed inventories | 108 overweight women visits hospital clinics in Iran | Significant differences in the experimental group before and after the intervention in nutritional behavior, perceived benefits, perceived self-efficacy, commitment to action, interpersonal and situational influences, behavior-related affect, and perceived barriers (P < 0.001) |