Fundamentals of Health Promotion for Nurses Practice Test

Enabling factors are the conditions that make behavior change possible by providing the means to act or by removing obstacles. This includes the skills people need to perform the new behavior, the resources available to them (such as time, money, access to services, equipment, and training), and the barriers that must be addressed or removed to enable change. In the PRECEDE-PROCEED framework, these enabling elements sit with predistressing factors like attitudes and beliefs (which are predisposing) and reinforcing factors like social support and incentives (which motivate and reinforce change). So the idea behind enabling factors is to ensure people have the capacity and the conditions needed to carry out the desired behavior, addressing both skills and practical barriers.