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The Application of Motivational Theory to Cardiovascular Risk Reduction
Author(s) -
Fleury Julie
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1992.tb00723.x
Subject(s) - theory of reasoned action , theory of planned behavior , health belief model , psychology , promotion (chess) , psychological intervention , health promotion , action (physics) , health behavior , psychological theory , cardiovascular health , behavior change , nursing theory , social psychology , applied psychology , medicine , nursing , medline , computer science , disease , public health , control (management) , political science , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , law , environmental health , pathology , physics , politics , quantum mechanics
The level of motivation sustained by an individual has been identified as a primary predictor of success in sustained cardiovascular risk factor modification efforts. This article reviews the primary motivational theories that have been used to explain and predict cardiovascular risk reduction. Specifically, the application of the Health Belief Model, Health Promotion Model, Theory of Reasoned Action, Theory of Planned Behavior and Self‐efficacy Theory to the initiation and maintenance of cardiovascular health behavior is addressed. The implication of these theories for the development of nursing interventions as well as new directions for nursing research and practice in the study of individual motivation in health behavior change are discussed.