Education is a crucial aspect of disease management in MS patients. A strategy aimed at improving patients' health and health behaviors, education provides benefits such as increasing their quality of life, self-efficacy, and confidence in ongoing care, reducing anxiety and stress, decreasing the frequency of disease symptoms, increasing patient participation in care plans, and improving their autonomy and self-management. Selecting the appropriate educational model is the first step in educational planning, and one of the most comprehensive and widely used models offered by nurses for patient education is Pender's Health Promotion Model.
Introduced by Pender in 1982, Pender's Health Promotion Model (HPLP) focuses on enabling people to achieve higher levels of well-being. The model encompasses six areas of health promotion, including nutrition, physical activity (exercise), health responsibility, stress management, interpersonal relationships, and self-actualization, as well as the factors that influence these areas.
Telenursing is a method that allows nurses to receive training to improve nursing services and enhance patient well-being. Telenursing is considered a component of telemedicine and, by definition, enables nurses to meet patients' healthcare needs through information and communication technologies. Telenursing offers a tool for providing continuous care to patients with chronic illnesses. This allows patients to receive the care they need without the need for long journeys, at a low cost, and in a way that positively impacts their recovery process.
