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- Title
The healthy lifestyles of enrolled nurse students of two nursing schools in Hong Kong.
- Authors
Leung Luk; Sum Fok, Andrew; Wai Shun Wong; Stephanie
- Abstract
Background Nursing staff is the major group of healthcare professionals who take care of clients in different healthcare settings. Are they educated to take good care of themselves before taking care of others? Few studies were conducted to identify the healthy lifestyles of enrolled nurse students who are trained to be professionals in future in Hong Kong. Purpose This study aims to examine the healthy lifestyles of enrolled nurse students from 2 nursing schools in Hong Kong. Any significant relationships of selected demographic variables with health-promoting lifestyles were also investigated. Methods A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted using convenience samples (n=267) of pupil nurses from 2 nursing schools recruited during classes discussing about holistic health in the year of 2013. The Chinese version of the Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP-II) was given to participants as a self-administered questionnaire and returned voluntarily. Results Findings showed that physical activity scored the lowest in the health promoting lifestyles, which warrants more attention for nurturing a balanced development of holistic health to enrolled nurse students. Males are more active than females on physical exercises. Religion is found to be a factor that may affect health which should also be further explored. Conclusions This study provides information about the healthy lifestyle of enrolled nurse students which can help school administrators in identifying their training needs. It also provides some ground data for further studying of the holistic health of nurses.
- Subjects
HONG Kong (China); STATISTICAL correlation; HEALTH promotion; HOLISTIC medicine; NURSING schools; PRACTICAL nurses; PSYCHOLOGY &; religion; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICAL sampling; SCALE analysis (Psychology); LIFESTYLES; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Macau Journal of Nursing, 2014, Vol 13, Issue 1, p30
- ISSN
1681-1534
- Publication type
Article