effect of lifestyle education based on pender model on health-promoting behaviors in hiv positive individuals: a randomized clinical trial study

Background & aim: human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) prevalence is increasing, and this disease has become a crisis for the modern world. today, the survival of patients has been increased, such that hiv is considered a chronic disease. so, paying attention to health-promoting intervention is necessary. thus, the current study aims to determine the effect of educating lifestyle based on the pender model on health-promoting behaviors in hiv patients. methods & materials: in this randomized clinical trial study, 70 hiv patients who had inclusion criteria were selected and then divided into intervention and control groups randomly. the intervention group received 6 one-hour education sessions weekly based on pender lifestyle (nutrition, physical activity, stress management, spiritual growth, interpersonal relationships, and health responsibility). a demographic questionnaire and hplp2 were used, which were completed by both groups before the intervention and 8 weeks after the intervention. chi-square, fisher, independent t, and ancova statistical tests and spss 16 software were used to analyze data. results: results showed that there was no significant difference in various dimensions of health-promoting lifestyle between two groups before intervention. however, intervention group scores for nutrition (28.08±6.23 vs. 23.58±6.04), physical activity (22.26±6.46 vs. 16.39±6.09), stress management (25.03±5.14 vs. 19.96±6.41), spiritual growth (29.49±6.11 vs. 25.45±8.54), interpersonal relationships (29.17±6.14 vs. 23.11±7.45) and health responsibility (28.36±6.06 vs. 23.89±5.74) were significantly higher than control group 8 weeks after intervention. moreover, the total score of health-promoting behaviors had a significant difference in the intervention group compared to the control group (166.7±28.43 vs. 134.5±35.68, p<0.001). conclusion: based on the findings, it can be said that educating lifestyle based on the pender model causes hiv patients to use health-promoting behaviors, which are recommended as a useful theory-based program for managers and providers of health services.