A client is learning how to manage his asthma. In providing teaching, the nurse stresses the importance of using the peak flow meter every morning to help determine changes in respiratory status. The nurse is stressing which health promotion behavior?
1. Competing preferences
2. Competing demands
3. Situational influences
4. Interpersonal influences
Correct Answer: 1
Rationale 1: Competing preferences are behaviors over which an individual has a high level of control and depend on the individual's ability to be self-regulating. In this case, the individual must make a choice to use his peak flow meter every day. It's really his choice—either he uses it or he doesn't.
Rationale 2: Competing demands are behaviors over which an individual has a low level of control; something unexpected competes with a planned activity.
Rationale 3: Situational influences are direct and indirect influences on health-promoting behaviors and include perceptions of available options, demand characteristics, and the aesthetic features of the environment.
Rationale 4: Interpersonal influences are a person's perceptions concerning the behaviors, beliefs, or attitudes of others.
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