This study assessed paediatric nurses' attitudes towards promoting healthy eating and their opinions regarding nurses as role models for health. In all, 67 nurses from 14 wards at an acute hospital trust completed questionnaires on weight, diet, physical activity, self-efficacy and attitudes towards nurses as role models for health. Forty-eight percent felt that they could incorporate health promotion into their patient care better, and 84% believed that nurses should present themselves as role models for health. Nurses felt that their own health behaviours influenced the quality of their care: 77% reported that patients and families would heed advice better from those who appeared to follow it themselves, and 48% reported difficulties in promoting health behaviours they did not adhere to themselves. These views were inconsistent with their own lifestyle choices, since one third of respondents did not meet physical-activity guidelines, almost half were an unhealthy weight, and the majority did not consume...
#1Holly Blake(University of Nottingham)H-Index: 26
#2Catherine Harrison(NUH: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust)H-Index: 1
Nurses are often viewed by the general public as role models for health. This study investigated health behaviours in pre-registered nurses and their attitudes towards being role models to their patients. In total, 540 pre-registered nurses self-reported their level of physical activity, smoking habits, alcohol intake and dietary habits. Overall, 24% were overweight or obese, 47% were not physically active enough to benefit their health, 73% did not eat the recommended five portions of fruit and...
Last. Jeanine Brown(UMD: University of Maryland, College Park)H-Index: 9
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Abstract Background Considerable research on preventive health care behaviors has been conducted in different segments of the population. Although nurses are the largest group of direct health care providers (3 million), little is known about their preventive health care behaviors. As the average age of nurses working in the United States (US) increases (mean age 47 years), maintaining their health to ensure they can continue to provide optimal health care to others becomes a greater priority. M...
Dr Holly Blake from the University of Nottingham, Dr Phoenix K. H. Mo from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dr. Sandra Lee from the University of Leicester and Prof. Mark E Batt form Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust present findings from a study looking at the health and wellbeing profiles of NHS Staff Whilst recent UK government publications have called for NHS staffto 'set the example' as role models for the health of the general public,1,2 previous work has suggested that many NH...
Aim: Promoting healthy lifestyles plays a key role in professional nursing yet nurses do not always practice what they preach. Efforts are currently being made to improve the health of NHS staff, yet little is known about the health and lifestyle behaviours of pre-registration nurses in the UK although these individuals are our next generation of NHS employees. The aim of this study was to investigate the health behaviours and wellbeing of pre-registration nurses based at an acute NHS teaching h...
Last. Mark E Batt(University of Nottingham)H-Index: 6
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This study examined the health behaviour of nursing staff, comparing registered and pre-registered nurses in terms of their selfreported health and lifestyle behaviour. In total, 325 pre-registered nurses and 551 registered nurses, based at the same university teaching hospital and located within an acute NHS trust, completed a self-administered health and lifestyle questionnaire survey. With the exception of smoking behaviour, registered nurses generally had a healthier lifestyle compared with ...
Purpose: To replicate research about confidence level in receiving health teaching from either an overweight or a weight-appropriate RN. Methods: A quasi-experimental post-test only design was used. Participants were randomly assigned to be shown images of a nurse, either overweight or weight-appropriate, then asked to rate their confidence in health teaching received from that nurse. Descriptive statistics, t test for independent samples, and covariate analyses were performed. Results: A signif...
Last. Chad L. Cross(UNLV: University of Nevada, Las Vegas)H-Index: 20
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Purpose: To quantify the incidence of overweight and obesity in nursing professionals and assess nurses’ knowledge of obesity and associated health risks. Data sources: A mailed survey to 4980 randomly selected registered nurses from one state in each of six geographic regions. Response rate was 15.5% (n= 760). Descriptive statistics were calculated for continuous variables; categorical variables were summarized with frequency counts. Results: The grand mean body mass index (BMI) of nurses surve...
Aims: The aim of the study was to analyze the relationship between health, lifestyle, work-related and sociodemographic factors, and older nurses' exit from the labor market to Post-Employment Wage (PEW). PEW is an early retirement scheme to make it possible for workers to retire at the age of 60. Methods: The study was based on 5,538 nurses in the age of 51—59 who in 1993 completed a questionnaire on health, lifestyle, working environment, and sociodemographic factors. The survey information wa...
ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to investigate the interaction between structural empowerment, nursing leadership, and self-efficacy for nursing practice, to determine if self-efficacy could contribute to more professional nursing behaviors.BackgroundIncreasing self-efficacy for nursing pract
#1Kathy L. Rush(University of South Carolina Upstate)H-Index: 4
#2Carolyn C. Kee(GSU: Georgia State University)H-Index: 13
Last. Marti Rice(UAB: University of Alabama at Birmingham)H-Index: 11
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The purpose of this qualitative study was to discover ways in which nurses describe themselves as health-promoting role models. Focus groups and individual interviews were conducted with nurses working in a variety of settings. Transcribed interviews were analyzed thematically. Nurses defined themselves as role models of health promotion according to the meaning they gave the term, their perceptions of societal expectations, and their self-constructed personal and professional domains. The term ...
Aim null To explore the barriers to healthy eating among nurses working in hospitals. null Design null Meta-synthesis. null Data sources null Published and unpublished papers were identified through electronic searches on PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Embase, Scopus, COCHRANE Library, Food Science and Technology Abstract, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses and OpenGrey from inception until 6 September 2020. English-language primary qualitative or mixed-method studies on barriers to healthy eating amo...
AIM: To identify factors influencing healthcare professionals' engagement in health behaviour conversations with patients. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. METHODS: Between April and June 2019, an online survey of 1338 nurses, midwives and healthcare support workers was conducted. The survey assessed whether staff felt comfortable initiating health behaviour conversations with patients about five behaviours (reducing alcohol intake; stop smoking; being more active; reducing their weight; and impr...
Across the world obesity rates in the general population have been increasing in recent years, a trend that has also been seen among nurses. Alongside the negative health effects of obesity such as type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease, the condition affects an individual's ability to work and results in increasing rates of absenteeism. However, the nature of nursing shift patterns and the healthcare workplace itself can influence a nurse's ability to eat healthily. This article di...
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 nursin...
Background Poor mental health and emotional well-being can negatively impact ability to engage in healthy lifestyle behavior change. Health care staff have higher rates of sickness and absence than other public sector staff, which has implications at both individual and societal levels. Individual efforts to self-manage health and well-being which add to the UK mental health prevention agenda need to be supported. Objective The objective of this study was to establish the feasibility and accepta...
Last. Pavlos Sarafis(CUT: Cyprus University of Technology)H-Index: 12
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AIM The aim of this paper is to compare the evolution of health risk behaviours between undergraduate nursing and social work students. BACKGROUND Nursing includes the promotion of health and the shaping of healthy behaviours. An important determinant for providing lifestyle advice is the lifestyle of nurses themselves. DESIGN Longitudinal comparative study. MEASUREMENTS We compared lifestyle risk behaviours (binge drinking, cannabis/hashish/marijuana use, smoking, oral hygiene/toothbrushing, br...
Maintaining a healthy diet is important for health and longevity. Many diets are recommended for their health-promotion properties. Despite their role in providing health education to patients, nurses do not always maintain healthy diets themselves. The literature shows that a significant number of nurses are overweight or obese. This article reviews the recommended healthy eating guidance and explores why nurses may not always eat healthily. It appears that several characteristics of the nursin...
#1Rinat Avraham(BGU: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)H-Index: 3
#2Tzahit Simon-Tuval(BGU: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)H-Index: 10
Last. Dina Van Dijk(BGU: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)H-Index: 10
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AIMS: To examine the dual process of physical activity adoption among nurses and its relationships with two personal orientations - regulatory focus - the tendency to focus on promotion (versus. prevention) goals and time preference as measured by delay discounting: the tendency to overvalue immediate rewards over long-term ones. BACKGROUND: The dual process theory suggests that both conscious and non-conscious processes influence the adoption of physical activity. However, the role of regulator...
Last. Holly Blake(RMIT: RMIT University)H-Index: 26
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Nurses make up the single largest healthcare professional group in the Nigerian healthcare system. As frontline healthcare providers, they promote healthy lifestyles to patients and families. However, the determinants of Nigerian nurses’ personal health promoting behaviors (HPBs) remain unknown. Utilizing the socio-ecological model (SEM) approach, this study aimed to explore the perceived facilitators and barriers to Nigerian nurses’ engagement in HPBs. HPBs were operationalized to comprise of h...
#2Emily Knox(UGR: University of Granada)H-Index: 11
Last. Holly Blake(RMIT: RMIT University)H-Index: 26
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Background: Prior research has investigated various strategies to improve health, wellbeing and the job-related outcomes of nurses. However, the scope of this evidence is not clear and the types of intervention most likely to have positive outcomes are unknown. Objective: To provide an overview and synthesis of the effectiveness of interventions conducted with the goal of improving health, wellbeing and the job-related outcomes of nurses. Methods: A systematic database search was conducted from ...
