Designing and evaluation of E-health educational intervention on students' physical activity: an application of Pender's Health Promotion Model
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BACKGROUND: The present study was conducted to design and evaluate the software and web-based curriculum based on Pender Model in order to promote students' physical activity. METHODS: This is a quasi-experimental study conducted on 225 eligible students who were randomly divided into two groups of web and software-based intervention and control. The sample size of the study was selected using stratified sampling method. The evaluation was done with pre-test and post-test and follow-up, which were performed immediately two and six months following the intervention. The data were analyzed employing statistical software SPSS using descriptive statistics, chi-square, one way ANOVA, and repeated measures ANOVA. RESULTS: The obtained results revealed that the level of physical activity after the intervention in the web and software groups significantly increased compared to the control group (p < 0.001). Moreover, the mean score of Pender model constructs, immediately two and six months after the intervention, was significantly different in the web and software groups (p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Our results indicated that, providing tailored message based on health promotion model's constructs has a positive effect on promoting physical activity of students. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Name: Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials. Registration number: IRCT20181009041298N1 . Registration date: 2018-12-02 [retrospectively registered].
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Pender's Health Promotion Model has been recognized as suitable for eliciting health promotion from nursing recipients based on previous studies.
“The model has been recognized as suitable for eliciting health promotion from nursing recipients based on previous studies of patients with chronic diseases [14,20,22], middle and high school students and college students [15,20,22], pregnant women and women of childbearing age, and general adults and workers [20,22,23].”
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The Background describes Pender’s model as a framework for promoting health behaviors, and the Abstract Conclusion reports improved physical activity among university students. The paper supports its suitability for that student setting, but does not establish suitability for nursing recipients across the other populations named in the citing sentence. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Sabooteh, S., Feizi, A., Shekarchizadeh, P., Shahnazi, H., & Mostafavi, F.
- Affiliations
- Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (IR)
- Corresponding author
- Mostafavi, Firoozeh
- Venue
- BMC Public Health
- Published
- 2021-04-06
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 657-657
- ISSN
- 1471-2458 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8025486
- OpenAlex
- W3114852530
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 49
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3
- FWCI
- 3.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- BMC Public Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Research Square (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (396578)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health and Lifestyle Studies
- Keywords
- digital health interventions, physical activity promotion, Pender's health promotion model, university students, web-based educational intervention, tailored health messages, health behavior change
- MeSH terms
- Health Promotion, Humans, Iran, Students, Exercise, Telemedicine
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