Health-promoting lifestyle behaviours of nursing students in a tertiary care institute of a city in western India

Abstract

Nurses work on the front lines of disease cure and the delivery of health care. Like any other student, nursing students face environmental changes, changes in peer groups, social, economic or academic stress. Nursing students’ beliefs and behaviours could affect the clinical services, which they will offer to their patients. To assess the level of the health-promoting lifestyle behaviours of nursing students andto determine association of health-promoting lifestyle behaviours with socio-demographic factors. Nursing student from selected tertiary care institute of Ahmedabad city, who give informed consent for participation will be included in the study. A predesigned Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP II) was used. The data analysis was done by using SPSS software version 21 using appropriate statistical tests. : Out of the total 182 nursing students enrolled in the study across of all three years, 163 (89.6%) possessed good health promoting behaviours. Only 39.56% (n=72) of the nursing students were of normal weight. Overall score for Promotion Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP II) had come out to be 135.14 (64.97%). Overall, variables such as BMI and Socio-economic class had significant statistical associations with specific sub-class of HPLP-II. : Health promoting behaviours were good for most of the nursing students. However, sub-class like spiritual growth and interpersonal relations had better score compared to sub-classes such as physical activity and health responsibility.