IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v17y2020i17p6291-d405734.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Factors Affecting Health-Promoting Behaviors among Nursing Students

Author

Listed:
  • Younghui Hwang

    (Department of Nursing, University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Korea)

  • Jihyun Oh

    (Department of Nursing, Daejeon University, Daejeon 300-716, Korea)

Abstract

Health-promoting behaviors help prevent chronic illness. Health-promoting behaviors of nursing students can affect not only their own health, but also the health of their future patients, for whom they can act as role models. Nursing students should participate in health-promoting behaviors; however, nursing students often have unhealthy behaviors. This study aimed to investigate the factors affecting health-promoting behaviors in nursing students. A descriptive, self-report survey of 304 nursing students from three universities in South Korea was conducted. Subjects’ general characteristics, health perceptions, health concerns, and health-promoting behaviors were collected. Of the total participants, 90.1% were female and the mean age was 20.4 years. The mean score for health-promoting behaviors was 2.47, higher than the midpoint. The mean for the subscale of physical activity among health-promoting behaviors was the lowest. The main factors affecting health-promoting behaviors were gender, health perceptions, health concern, and time per week spent searching online for health-related information. The main factors affecting physical activity were gender, health concern, and time per week spent searching online for health-related information. Based on the study findings, it is recommended that a program to empower nursing students to perform health-promoting behaviors be incorporated into the nursing education curriculum with regard to unique needs based on gender. Specifically, it would be effective to develop programs that are easily accessible via the Internet.

Suggested Citation

  • Younghui Hwang & Jihyun Oh, 2020. "Factors Affecting Health-Promoting Behaviors among Nursing Students," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(17), pages 1-13, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:17:p:6291-:d:405734
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/17/6291/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/17/6291/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Glenn Laverack, 2017. "The Challenge of Behaviour Change and Health Promotion," Challenges, MDPI, vol. 8(2), pages 1-4, October.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Cristina Romero-Blanco & Antonio Hernández-Martínez & María Laura Parra-Fernández & María Dolores Onieva-Zafra & María del Carmen Prado-Laguna & Julián Rodríguez-Almagro, 2022. "Food Preferences in Undergraduate Nursing Students and Its Relationship with Food Addiction and Physical Activity," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(7), pages 1-11, March.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Glenn Laverack, 2018. "Engaging with Migrant Communities: A Framework for Action," Societies, MDPI, vol. 8(4), pages 1-7, September.
    2. Eva Savolainen & Stina Rutberg & Ylva Backman & Anna-Karin Lindqvist, 2020. "Long-Term Perspectives of a School-Based Intervention to Promote Active School Transportation," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(14), pages 1-13, July.
    3. Sabina De Rosis & Francesca Pennucci & Guido Noto & Sabina Nuti, 2020. "Healthy Living and Co-Production: Evaluation of Processes and Outcomes of a Health Promotion Initiative Co-Produced with Adolescents," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(21), pages 1-19, October.
    4. Carol Nash, 2020. "Report on Digital Literacy in Academic Meetings during the 2020 COVID-19 Lockdown," Challenges, MDPI, vol. 11(2), pages 1-24, September.
    5. Carol Nash, 2021. "Online Meeting Challenges in a Research Group Resulting from COVID-19 Limitations," Challenges, MDPI, vol. 12(2), pages 1-27, November.
    6. Glenn Laverack, 2019. "Triggering Organic Growth: A Fresh Challenge to Behaviour Change," Challenges, MDPI, vol. 10(1), pages 1-5, April.
    7. Hani Al-Dmour & Ra’ed Masa’deh & Amer Salman & Rand Al-Dmour & Mohammad Abuhashesh, 2022. "The Role of Mass Media Interventions on Promoting Public Health Knowledge and Behavioral Social Change Against COVID-19 Pandemic in Jordan," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(1), pages 21582440221, March.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:17:p:6291-:d:405734. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.