1. IntroductionThe Health Promotion Model (HPM) was created by Pender in 1982 and was revised in 1987, 1996, and 2002. Pender’s background in nursing, human development, experimental psychology, and education led her to use a holistic nursing perspective, social psychology, and learning theory as foundations for the HPM [1]. The Health Promotion Model (HPM) provides a framework to explain and predict specific health behaviors [2].