Health-Promoting Lifestyle Assessment Among Nursing Students In East Kalimantan

Abstract

Nurses as a health professional has a significant role in primary health services in nurturing, and also enabling the community to healthy behavior. Nurse students will become role models for healthy lifestyles and as leaders to enable people to live healthy lives, this is inversely proportional to the possibility of their unhealthy lifestyles since the study period. The purposes of study were to assess the level health-promoting lifestyle among student of nursing and identify the differences in such lifestyle based on socio-demography. A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 326 of nursing students in East Kalimantan. The data has been collected by Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP II) level (i.e., responsibility of health, spiritual, physical activities, interpersonal relationship, student nutrition, and their stress management). Data was taken by online self-administered questionnaire. Participants were recruited by convenience sampling. Descriptive and inferential statistics data analysis has been conducted. It was found that 76.4% were female, 37.7% were in second years study, as much as 58.9% of students from municipality areas. The mean score of 2.79 (good) of total HPLP II. The highest mean score was shown for interpersonal relationship by nurse students 3.25 (excellent) and the lowest was daily nutrition (2.43) and physical activity (2.47) as moderate level. Based on independence t-test analysis there were differences statistically in physical activity between gender (p-value <0.001), there is a difference statistically in health responsibility between student from municipality and regency (p-value = 0.010). In general, the HPLP indicators for nursing students are good, but improvement and promotion of healthy lifestyles is still needed. Further identification as strengthening to determine the cause of low nutrition and physical activity. Aspects that must be maintained are interpersonal relationships and spiritual growth.

The relationship between depression, anxiety, e-health literacy, and health-promoting behavior in nursing students during COVID-19

“…[34] Results showed that depression was positively correlated with anxiety ( R = 0.734, P < .001). And depression was found to have a negative correlation with health-promoting behavior ( R = 0.201, P = .001), consistent with previous findings, [27] which reported that health-promoting behavior of nursing students had a negative correlation with depression; consequently, there should be careful monitoring of depression and anxiety among nursing students, as well as effective management approaches to reduce these levels. Regular mental health evaluations should be conducted to identify and intervene in nursing students’ health problems, and individual approaches to providing services tailored to each student should be included.…”

“…In this study, the average health-promoting behaviors of the subjects were 2.43 (0.45). Compared to 2.31, [50] 2.57, [51] and 2.79, [27] which were found when college students were surveyed in a previous study, health-promoting behaviors of the subjects in this study were found to be moderate. Most of the participants in this study were in their early 20s and were generally less interested in lifestyle-related diseases; therefore, an intervention strategy is required to promote health-promoting behaviors during this period.…”

“…[48] Individual eHL enhancements have a positive impact on their health decisions and affect future behaviors to help achieve better health. [27,37,47,48] In other words, if eHL is high, individuals are highly likely to comply with preventive behavior, [37,48] and this enables a healthy lifestyle and promotes engagement with preventive behavior during the COVID-19 outbreak. [36] A study by Li et al [36] found a positive correlation between eHL and health-promoting behaviors, and the same results ( R = 0.347, P < .001) were confirmed in our study.…”

“…In addition, it is very important to establish health promotion among college students because it is relatively easy to correct incorrect health behavior patterns at this age. [26][27][28] The significance of health promotion in establishing preventive behavior is that people should be able to search for and understand accurate health information, evaluate it and apply it. In previous studies, eHL has been reported as an important factor influencing health-promoting behavior, and the importance of eHL during the COVID-19 pandemic is further emphasized.…”

“…[35] Other previous studies investigated the digital health literacy of college students during the COVID-19 period, [17,22,24] and one study reported that there was a significant relationship between eHL and COVID-19-related health behaviors of college students. [36] In addition, there were studies that investigated the health-promoting behaviors of nursing students, [26,27] and investigated the relationship between health information understanding ability and health-promoting behaviors, [28] or the relationship between e-health literature, preventive behavior, anxiety, and depression of nursing students. [37] However, there is a dearth of studies conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic on the links between depression, anxiety, eHL, and health-promoting behaviors specifically among nursing students.…”