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Do demographic factors and a health-promoting lifestyle influence the self-rated health of college nursing students?

BACKGROUND: To adopt a healthy lifestyle is considered an essential component of nursing education. Self-rated health is a subjective assessment of health status and is consistent with objective health status. Previous studies have shown an association between self-rated health and engagement in a h...

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Autores principales: CHOW, Susan Ka Yee, LAM, Kin-Man, LIE, Shih-Hung, MAK, Ka-Chun, MONG, Ka-Chun, SO, Chun-Man, YUEN, Wai-Yip
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6267045/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30519146
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-018-0322-y
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author CHOW, Susan Ka Yee
LAM, Kin-Man
LIE, Shih-Hung
MAK, Ka-Chun
MONG, Ka-Chun
SO, Chun-Man
YUEN, Wai-Yip
author_facet CHOW, Susan Ka Yee
LAM, Kin-Man
LIE, Shih-Hung
MAK, Ka-Chun
MONG, Ka-Chun
SO, Chun-Man
YUEN, Wai-Yip
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description BACKGROUND: To adopt a healthy lifestyle is considered an essential component of nursing education. Self-rated health is a subjective assessment of health status and is consistent with objective health status. Previous studies have shown an association between self-rated health and engagement in a healthy lifestyle. Nursing students need to feel good about their subjective health status and to be able to adopt health improvements in their lifestyle before attempting to disseminate health messages to clients. The aims of this study were to compare the difference in self-rated health and health promotion lifestyle profile between senior and junior nursing students, describe correlations between self-rated health and health promotion lifestyle profile, and identify the predictors of self-rated health. METHODS: A cross-sectional descriptive survey was adopted. The study sample consisted of 314 junior and senior year nursing students from a tertiary institution. The self-reported questionnaire consisted of a single-item question to examine their self-rated health. The Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile-II: Chinese version short form (HPLP-IICR) was used to investigate the health-promoting lifestyles of the students. Descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U test, Chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test, Spearman’s correlation, and ordinal logistic regression were used to analyze the data. RESULTS: The median scores for self-rated health were 3 (Mean 3.26, IQR 3–4) and 3 (Mean 3.19, IQR 3–4) out of 5 for Year 2 and Year 5 students, respectively, with no significant difference between the two groups. The two groups of students showed no significant differences in overall score and in most subscales of the HPLP-IICR. An ordinal logistic regression showed that those students with higher health management score (OR: 1.12, 95% CI: 1.04–1.21) and who had experienced no family conflicts in the recent month than having family conflict (OR: 1.64, 95% CI: 1.01–2.66) were more likely to have higher self-rated health. CONCLUSION: Nursing education and clinical practice can undoubtedly increase the health knowledge of students, but may not lead to changes in actual health-promoting behaviours. Students with a higher health management score and no family conflicts are more likely to give a positive appraisal of their health status. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12912-018-0322-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-62670452018-12-05 Do demographic factors and a health-promoting lifestyle influence the self-rated health of college nursing students? CHOW, Susan Ka Yee LAM, Kin-Man LIE, Shih-Hung MAK, Ka-Chun MONG, Ka-Chun SO, Chun-Man YUEN, Wai-Yip BMC Nurs Research Article BACKGROUND: To adopt a healthy lifestyle is considered an essential component of nursing education. Self-rated health is a subjective assessment of health status and is consistent with objective health status. Previous studies have shown an association between self-rated health and engagement in a healthy lifestyle. Nursing students need to feel good about their subjective health status and to be able to adopt health improvements in their lifestyle before attempting to disseminate health messages to clients. The aims of this study were to compare the difference in self-rated health and health promotion lifestyle profile between senior and junior nursing students, describe correlations between self-rated health and health promotion lifestyle profile, and identify the predictors of self-rated health. METHODS: A cross-sectional descriptive survey was adopted. The study sample consisted of 314 junior and senior year nursing students from a tertiary institution. The self-reported questionnaire consisted of a single-item question to examine their self-rated health. The Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile-II: Chinese version short form (HPLP-IICR) was used to investigate the health-promoting lifestyles of the students. Descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U test, Chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test, Spearman’s correlation, and ordinal logistic regression were used to analyze the data. RESULTS: The median scores for self-rated health were 3 (Mean 3.26, IQR 3–4) and 3 (Mean 3.19, IQR 3–4) out of 5 for Year 2 and Year 5 students, respectively, with no significant difference between the two groups. The two groups of students showed no significant differences in overall score and in most subscales of the HPLP-IICR. An ordinal logistic regression showed that those students with higher health management score (OR: 1.12, 95% CI: 1.04–1.21) and who had experienced no family conflicts in the recent month than having family conflict (OR: 1.64, 95% CI: 1.01–2.66) were more likely to have higher self-rated health. CONCLUSION: Nursing education and clinical practice can undoubtedly increase the health knowledge of students, but may not lead to changes in actual health-promoting behaviours. Students with a higher health management score and no family conflicts are more likely to give a positive appraisal of their health status. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12912-018-0322-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2018-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6267045/ /pubmed/30519146 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-018-0322-y Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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CHOW, Susan Ka Yee
LAM, Kin-Man
LIE, Shih-Hung
MAK, Ka-Chun
MONG, Ka-Chun
SO, Chun-Man
YUEN, Wai-Yip
Do demographic factors and a health-promoting lifestyle influence the self-rated health of college nursing students?
title Do demographic factors and a health-promoting lifestyle influence the self-rated health of college nursing students?
title_full Do demographic factors and a health-promoting lifestyle influence the self-rated health of college nursing students?
title_fullStr Do demographic factors and a health-promoting lifestyle influence the self-rated health of college nursing students?
title_full_unstemmed Do demographic factors and a health-promoting lifestyle influence the self-rated health of college nursing students?
title_short Do demographic factors and a health-promoting lifestyle influence the self-rated health of college nursing students?
title_sort do demographic factors and a health-promoting lifestyle influence the self-rated health of college nursing students?
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6267045/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30519146
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-018-0322-y
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