Barriers to healthy lifestyle behaviors in Australian nursing students: A qualitative study

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 921-928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya L. Thwaite ◽  
Penny Heidke ◽  
Susan L. Williams ◽  
Corneel Vandelanotte ◽  
Amanda L. Rebar ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayumi Mizutani ◽  
Junko Tashiro ◽  
Maftuhah ◽  
Heri Sugiarto ◽  
Lily Yulaikhah ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 3588
Author(s):  
Türkan Aksoy ◽  
Semiha Aydın Özkan

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine healthy lifestyle behaviors in the literature and determine nursing students’/nursing’s behavior level who formed the sample of studies in our country.Method: This study is carried out to determine nursing students/nurses behaviour level who formed the sample group between the years 2000-2015. The Publication and Documentation Department of the Council of Higher Education in Turkey, the National Academic Network and Information Center’s database on medical and nursing fields online and printed magazines published in Turkish. 21 studies and compilations, in which at least one of the researchers was a nurse, were accessed, and these studies and compilations constituted the sample of the present studyResults: A total of 26 studies included in this study which was the use of healthy lifestyle behaviors scale and nursing students / nurses formes in the sample. Healthy lifestyle of students in studies with scores of nursing students in our country seems to be on the middle level of the average. When we look at the work done by nurses using healthy lifestyle behavior scale, seems to be at an intermediate level.Conclusion: As a result of the research, nursing students and nurses are seen in intermediate level scores obtained from the healthy lifestyle behaviors scale . Most of the studies  are descriptive and the scores were found to be affected by various socio- demographic characteristiSo, for a high quality nursing care that provide by nurses, it is important that nurses be aware of basic concepts of oxygen therapy, methods of application and possible complications. ÖzetAmaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı, ülkemizde hemşirelik öğrencilerinin ve hemşirelerin örneklemini oluşturduğu, sağlıklı yaşam biçimi davranış düzeylerini saptamak için yapılan çalışmaları incelemek, sonuçlarını analiz etmek ve somut veriler sunmaktır.Gereç ve Yöntem: Bu araştırma, 2000-2015 yılları arasında hemşirelik öğrencilerinin/ hemşire­lerin örneklem grubunu oluşturduğu ve sağlıklı yaşam biçimi davranışları ölçeğinden aldıkları puanların incelenmesiyle yapılmış, bir retrospektif tanımlayıcı literatür araştırmasıdır. Veriler, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Yüksek Öğretim Kurulu (YÖK) Yayın ve Dokümantasyon Dai­resi tez tarama veri tabanı, Ulusal Akademik Ağ ve Bilgi Merkezinde bulunan (ULAKBİM) tıp ve hemşirelik alanlarındaki veri tabanlarından Türkçe yayınla­nan online ve basılı dergilerden elde edilmiştir.Bulgular: Sağlıklı yaşam biçimi davranışları ölçeğinin kullandığı ve hemşirelik öğrencilerinin/hemşirelerin örneklem grubunda yer aldığı toplam 26 çalışmaya ulaşılmış ve bu çalışmalar araştırmanın örneklemini oluştur­muştur. Ülkemizde hemşirelik öğrencileri ile yapılan çalışmalarda öğrencilerin sağlıklı yaşam biçimi ölçek puan ortalamalarının orta düzeyin üstünde olduğu görülmektedir. Sağlıklı yaşam biçimi davranışları ölçeği kullanılarak hemşireler ile yapılan çalışmalara bakıldığında, hemşirelerin sağlıklı yaşam biçimi ölçek puan ortalamalarının orta düzeyde olduğu görülmektedir. Her iki örneklem grubunda bazı sosyo-demografik özelliklerin sağlıklı yaşam biçimi davranışını etkilediği saptanmıştır.Sonuç: İncelenen araştırmaların sonucunda, hemşirelik öğrencilerinin ve hemşirelerin sağlıklı yaşam biçimi davranışları ölçeğinden aldıkları puanlarının orta düzeyde olduğu görülmektedir. Çalışmaların çoğunun tanımlayıcı nitelikte yapıldığı ve ölçek puanlarının değişik sosyo-demografik özelliklerden etkilendiği bulunmuştur.


Author(s):  
Sena Kaplan ◽  
Sibel Peksoy Kaya

INTRODUCTION: This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between nursing students’ awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic and health behaviors with health literacy. METHODS: This descriptive and cross-sectional study comprised 408 students enrolled in an undergraduate nursing program at a public university in Turkey. The data were collected online using the Individual Information Form, Healthy Lifestyle Behavior Scale II, and Turkish Health Literacy Scale-32. The percentiles, significance test of the difference between two means, and Pearson correlation analysis were used to analyze the data. RESULTS: The mean age of students was 20.89±1.95 and three of them had been diagnosed with COVID-19. It was determined that the students had sufficient health literacy (𝒙̅ =35.97±8.73), and healthy lifestyle behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic were at a moderate level (𝒙̅ =55.76±12.05). The results showed that as awareness of nursing students regarding COVID-19 and precautions against it increased, their mean score of health literacy increased, too (p<.05). Furthermore, there was a positive correlation between students’ mean score of healthy lifestyle behaviors in nutrition, physical activity, and stress management and their mean score of health literacy (p<.05). DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: As the results have shown a relationship between nursing students’ awareness of COVID-19 and healthy lifestyle behaviors and health literacy, it is suggested to adapt the health literacy to students’ daily life during the pandemic period.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 1505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hüsna Özveren ◽  
Esra Doğan Yılmaz

Aim: This study was conducted to examine healthy lifestyle behaviors and exercise behaviors of nursing students.Material and method: The sample of the descriptive study consisted of 317 students who were educated at the University of Health Sciences Faculty Nursing Department during the 2016-2017 school year and who agreed to participate in the research. Data were collected using via demografic characteristics questionnaire, Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale and Exercise Benefit/Barrier Scale. While the data were evaluated, percentage calculations, average measures, Kruskal Wallis test, Mann Whitney U test, One Way Anova and Student t test were used.Results: It was determined that the mean score of the students' Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale as 130,69±19,22. It was found that the highest scores were obtained from spiritual development sub-dimension (26,19±4,31) while the lowest scores were obtained from the physical activity sub-dimension (17,38±5,16) of the scale. It was determined that the mean score of the students' Exercise Benefit/Barrier Scale as 127,82±15,12, mean score of the benefit sub-dimension as 90,35±12,19 and the mean score of the barrier sub-dimension as 37,47±5,96. It was determined that there was a moderate correlation between the exercise benefit scores and the physical activity scores of the students, which was 41% in the positive direction.Conclusion: It was determined that the students' healthy life style behaviors were middle level and their exercise benefits perceptions  were high level. Physical activity behaviors of students were found to increase as the exercise benefit perception of them increased. In the direction of the results obtained from the research, in order to make the nursing students a good role model for the society, emphasizing the healthy lifestyle behaviours, especially nutrition, physical activity and stress management, from which they have received lower points, within the academic curriculums and trying to eliminate the perceived obstacles by attempting to improve the exercise benefit perceptions may be suggested. Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file.ÖzetAmaç: Çalışma, öğrenci hemşirelerin sağlıklı yaşam biçimi davranışları ile egzersiz davranışlarının incelenmesi amacıyla yapılmıştır.Materyal Metot: Tanımlayıcı tipteki araştırmanın örneklemini, bir üniversitenin Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi Hemşirelik Bölümü’nde Bölümü’nde 2016-2017 yıllarında öğrenim öğrenim gören ve araştırmaya katılmayı kabul eden 317 öğrenci oluşturmuştur. Araştırma verileri; Tanıtıcı Özellikler Formu, Sağlıklı Yaşam Biçimi Davranışları Ölçeği ve Egzersiz Yarar/Engel Ölçeği kullanılarak toplanmıştır. Veriler değerlendirilirken, yüzdelik hesapları, ortalama ölçütleri, One Way Anova, Student t testi,  Mann Whitney U testi ve Kruskal Wallis testi kullanılmıştır.Bulgular: Öğrencilerin Sağlıklı Yaşam Biçimi Davranışları Ölçeği toplam puan ortalamasının 130,69±19,22 olduğu, manevi gelişim alt boyut (26,19±4,31) puan ortalamasının en yüksek,  fiziksel aktivite alt boyut (17,38±5,16)  puan ortalamasının ise en düşük olduğu belirlenmiştir. Öğrencilerin Egzersiz Yarar/Engel Ölçeği toplam puan ortalaması 127,82±15,12, yarar alt ölçeği puan ortalaması 90,35±12,19, engel alt ölçeği puan ortalaması ise 37,47±5,96 olarak bulunmuştur. Öğrencilerin egzersiz yarar puanları ile fiziksel aktivite puanları arasında pozitif yönde %41 oranında orta düzeyde ilişki olduğu saptanmıştır.Sonuç: Çalışmada öğrenci hemşirelerin sağlıklı yaşam biçimi davranışlarının orta düzeyde olduğu, egzersiz yarar algılarının yüksek olduğu ve öğrencilerin egzersiz yarar algıları arttıkça fiziksel aktivite davranışlarının da arttığı saptanmıştır. Araştırmadan elde edilen sonuçlar doğrultusunda, hemşirelik öğrencilerinin, topluma iyi bir rol model olabilmeleri için başta beslenme, stres yönetimi ve fiziksel aktivite gibi düşük puan aldıkları alt ölçek alanlarına müfredat programlarında ağırlık verilmesi ve egzersiz yarar algılarını geliştirilmeye çalışılarak algılanan engelleri ortadan kaldırma girişimleri önerilebilir.


Author(s):  
Seonad K. Madden ◽  
Claire A. Blewitt ◽  
Kiran D. K. Ahuja ◽  
Helen Skouteris ◽  
Cate M. Bailey ◽  
...  

Overweight and obesity present health risks for mothers and their children. Reaching women during the key life stages of preconception and pregnancy in community settings, such as workplaces, is an ideal opportunity to enable health behavior change. We conducted five focus groups with 25 women aged between 25 and 62 years in order to investigate the determinants of healthy lifestyle behaviors, weight management, and wellbeing needs during the preconception and pregnancy periods in an Australian university workplace. Discussions explored women’s health and wellbeing needs with specific reference to workplace impact. An abductive analytical approach incorporated the capability, opportunity, and motivation of behavior (COM-B) model, and four themes were identified: hierarchy of needs and values, social interactions, a support scaffold, and control. Findings highlight the requirement for greater organization-level support, including top-down coordination of wellbeing opportunities and facilitation of education and support for preconception healthy lifestyle behaviors in the workplace. Interventionists and organizational policy makers could incorporate these higher-level changes into workplace processes and intervention development, which may increase intervention capacity for success.


Author(s):  
Xiaotao Zhang ◽  
Abiodun Oluyomi ◽  
LeChauncy Woodard ◽  
Syed Ahsan Raza ◽  
Maral Adel Fahmideh ◽  
...  

This study examined individual-level determinants of self-reported changes in healthy (diet and physical activity) and addictive (alcohol use, smoking, and vaping) lifestyle behaviors during the initial COVID-19 lockdown period in the USA. A national online survey was administered between May and June 2020 that targeted a representative U.S. sample and yielded data from 1276 respondents, including 58% male and 50% racial/ethnic minorities. We used univariate and multivariable linear regression models to examine the associations of sociodemographic, mental health, and behavioral determinants with self-reported changes in lifestyle behaviors. Some study participants reported increases in healthy lifestyle behaviors since the pandemic (i.e., 36% increased healthy eating behaviors, and 33% increased physical activity). However, they also reported increases in addictive lifestyle behaviors including alcohol use (40%), tobacco use (41%), and vaping (46%). With regard to individual-level determinants, individuals who reported adhering to social distancing guidelines were also more likely to report increases in healthy lifestyle behaviors (β = 0.12, 95% CI 0.04 to 0.21). Conversely, women (β = −0.37, 95% CI −0.62 to −0.12), and unemployed individuals (β = −0.33, 95% CI −0.64 to −0.02) were less likely to report increases in healthy lifestyle behaviors. In addition, individuals reporting anxiety were more likely to report increases in addictive behaviors (β = 0.26, 95% CI 0.09 to 0.43). Taken together, these findings suggest that women and unemployed individuals may benefit from interventions targeting diet and physical activity, and that individuals reporting anxiety may benefit from interventions targeting smoking and alcohol cessation to address lifestyle changes during the pandemic.


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