Religious Attendance, Health-Promoting Lifestyle Behaviors, and Depressive Symptoms Among Koreans in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Abstract Background: Nurses play a core role and encompass the main workforce in health care systems. Their role model of health promoting behaviors would directly or indirectly affect their clients’ beliefs or attitudes of health promotion. There is limited evidence on health promoting lifestyle behaviors in clinical registered nurses. To explore the health promoting lifestyle behaviors and associated influencing factors among clinical registered nurses in China.Methods: A multi-center cross-sectional anonymous online survey was conducted in 2020. Participants were asked to complete social demographic information as well as the revised Chinese edition of Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile. Independent-Sample T Test, One-Way ANOVA and categorical regression (optimal scaling regression) were main methods to analysis the relationship between demographic data and score of health promoting lifestyle behaviors.Results: 19422 nurses were included in the study. The mean score of self-actualization, health responsibility/physical activity, nutrition, job safety, interpersonal support and overall Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile were, 27.61±5.42 out of a score of 36, 22.71±7.77 out of a score of 44, 10.43±2.97 out of a score of 16, 22.05±3.97 out of a score of 28, 20.19±4.67 out of a score of 28, and 102.99±19.93 out of a score of 144, respectively. There was a significant relationship among Hospital levels, working years, nightshift status, and monthly income per person and mean score of all subscales and the overall Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile (P<0.05).Conclusions: Nurses participated in the study presented moderate level of health promoting lifestyle behaviors. Hospital levels, working years, nightshift status, and monthly income per person were predictors for all subscales and overall HPLP.

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Analysis of Health Promoting Lifestyle Behaviors among Nursing Students from a College of a Health Sciences Academy in Kathmandu, Nepal

Middle East Journal of Nursing ◽

10.5742/mejn.2019.93697 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 3-10

Author(s):

Sudarshan Paudel ◽

Ambika Poudel ◽

Amit Arjyal

Keyword(s):

Nursing Students ◽

Health Sciences ◽

Lifestyle Behaviors ◽

Health Promoting ◽

Health Promoting Lifestyle

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Health Promoting Lifestyle and Perceived Social Support Measure of Nursing Students in a Selected College of Nursing

Journal of Health and Caring Sciences ◽

10.37719/jhcs.2019.v1i1.oa002 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 21-32

Author(s):

Rebecca Salud Tejada

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Social Support ◽

Nursing Students ◽

Stress Management ◽

Perceived Social Support ◽

Lifestyle Behaviors ◽

Personal Resource ◽

Support Measure ◽

Health Promoting ◽

Health Promoting Lifestyle

Background: The importance of health promotion has been underscored in preventing the existing of certain diseases, safeguarding the health of the nation. However, certain factors must be considered in ensuring that all individuals are motivated in maintaining their highest health potential. This study aims to determine if there is a difference between the profile variables of the nursing students, their perceived social support measure and the Health-promoting lifestyles they practice. Methodology: A descriptive comparative research design was utilized in the study. Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP II) and Personal Resource Questionnaire (PRQ) was used to gather data to one hundred eighteen (118) nursing students. To analyze the gathered data, frequency, percentages, t-test and one-way ANOVA were used in the study. Results: Results revealed that respondents’ nutrition and stress management were significantly different with age group. It was also found that the respondents’ physical activity is significantly different with gender. Conclusion: Nutrition, physical activity, stress management and health responsibility were the lowest Health-promoting lifestyle behaviors.

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Health Promoting Lifestyle Behaviors in Menopausal Women: A Cross-Sectional Study

Global Journal of Health Science ◽

10.5539/gjhs.v8n8p128 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (8) ◽

pp. 128 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Fereshte Shabani Asrami ◽

Zeinab Hamzehgardeshi ◽

Zohreh Shahhosseini

Keyword(s):

Odds Ratio ◽

Pearson Correlation ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Lifestyle Behaviors ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Significance Level ◽

Menopausal Women ◽

Health Promoting ◽

Health Promoting Lifestyle

BACKGROUND: Determining health promoting lifestyle behaviors of age-specific groups of women provides valuable information for designing health promotion intervention programs. Hence the present study was conducted to assess health promoting lifestyle behaviors in menopausal women.METHODS: The present descriptive cross-sectional study examined health promoting lifestyle behaviors in 400 menopausal women admitted to health care centers in Neka city-north of Iran-from March 2015 to July 2015. Health promoting lifestyle behaviors were evaluated using a demographic characteristics form and the Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP II) through simple convenience sampling. Data were analyzed in SPSS version 18 using descriptive and inferential statistics at the significance level of P<0.05.RESULTS: The mean score of participants' health promoting lifestyle behaviors was 136.43±19.61, ranging from 88 to 194. The logistic regression test revealed women's health promoting lifestyle behaviors to be significantly related to their place of residence (P=0.009, odds ratio=1.73) and their spouse's level of education (P=0.027, odds ratio=0.58). The Pearson correlation test showed significant relationships between mean score of the six sub-scale of health promoting lifestyle behaviors with each other (P<0.001).CONCLUSION: These findings have implications for addressing the role of men to promote health promoting lifestyle behaviors among rural menopausal women.

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Factors Affecting Health-Promoting Lifestyle Behaviors Among Arab American Women

Journal of Transcultural Nursing ◽

10.1177/1043659619859056 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 267-275 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Kholoud Hardan-Khalil

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Health Promotion ◽

Psychological Stress ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Arab American ◽

Lifestyle Behaviors ◽

Personal Factors ◽

Health Promotion Behaviors ◽

Health Promoting ◽

Health Promoting Lifestyle

Introduction: An estimated 3.6 million Arab Americans live in the United States. Limited studies have addressed Arab American women’s health needs. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between personal factors (sociodemographic factors, degree of acculturation, psychological stress), health self-efficacy, social support, and health-promoting lifestyle behaviors among Arab American women in California. Method: A cross-sectional, correlational survey study involved 267 women. The survey assessed women’s personal factors, health self-efficacy, social support, and health promotion behaviors. Results: Age, education, orientation to American culture, psychological stress, health self-efficacy, and social support were strongly correlated with health promotion behaviors and explained 46% of its variance among participants, F(18, 248) = 10.657, p = .000, R2 = .46. Discussion: Participants scored low on both the physical activity and stress management of the health promotion subscales. Culturally sensitive interventions are needed to improve engagement in health promotion behaviors among these women.

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Knowledge and health promoting lifestyle behaviors about menopause among perimenopausal female teachers

Journal of Nursing Education and Practice ◽

10.5430/jnep.v9n6p113 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (6) ◽

pp. 113

Author(s):

Samar Alotaibi ◽

Sahar Mohammed Hassan Yakout ◽

Salma M. Moawad

Keyword(s):

Demographic Variable ◽

Lifestyle Behaviors ◽

Chi Square ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Health Promoting Behaviors ◽

Female Teachers ◽

Reproductive Ability ◽

Chi Square Test ◽

Health Promoting ◽

Health Promoting Lifestyle

Menopause is a critical period in a woman's life that not only marks the end of reproductive ability, but it also associated with multiple physical, vasomotor, psychological, and sexual complaints Many of the serious complications that women face during menopause are caused by their own poor lifestyles and their lack of knowledge about self-care. The objective of this study was to assess knowledge and health promoting behavior at menopause among perimenopausal female teachers in Dawadmi City. The study applied cross sectional descriptive design with stratified random sampling used to obtain (348) female teachers statistically calculated from the total 3,708 teachers. A structured closed ended questionnaire was used to collect data consisting of three parts: demographic information, questions to assess knowledge of female teachers about the pre-menopausal symptoms and The Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II to measures health-promoting behaviors. 58.9% of the subjects had poor knowledge, 30.7% had moderate knowledge and only 10.3% of teachers had Good and Excellent knowledge levels. Total mean score related to Health Promoting Behaviors was 130.05 ± 27.555 which considered medium in general. In general, socio-demographic variable of female teachers did not show significant correlations by using Pearson Chi-Square test and ANOVA test, also, did not show significant correlations for total knowledge level. Total Behaviors level, which also showed significant correlation with age (F = 1.358, p = .028) and weight during last year (F = 1.303, p = .049) categories. In conclusion, iidentifying the knowledge of women about menopause has an essential role in the development of women’s health during menopausal years. Results suggest that participants do not consistently include health-promoting behaviors into their lifestyle, especially physical activity. Therefore, certain policies should be designed and conducted to promote health behavior. Develop a process to promote worksite wellness programs, and to support behavioral changes intended to promote healthy lifestyles.

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