“…Recent studies in Iran have shown that the HAPA model can be used to predict students’ nutritional behaviour (Alinaghizadeh, Javadi, & Lesani, 2017), nutritional behaviour and physical activity in people with type 2 diabetes (Rohani, Bidkhori, Eslami, Sadeghi, & Sadeghi, 2018; Rohani, Sadeghi, Eslami, Raei, & Jafari‐Koshki, 2018), parenting skills in mothers (Norouzi et al, 2015) and breast self‐assessment (Ghofranipour, 2018). However, a theory should be tested to identify the factors that influence favourable behaviour change in the target group (Rohani et al, 2015).…”