A client is learning how to manage his asthma. In providing teaching, the nurse stresses the ...

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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 choiceeither 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.