| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺北醫學大學 === 護理學研究所 === 95 === The study intends to learn more about stage of exercise, depressive symptoms and quality of life among college nursing female students and the relationships among the above three. The design of this study is a crosssectional study, in which 792 survey questionnaires consisting of college nursing female students in 5 national and private universities, independent colleges and medical universities in Taipei City and County in 2007. Out of the 792 questionnaires, 752 were returned and 721 of them are valid returned for further analysis (response rate: 91.0%). The tools used for the study are Stage of Exercise questionnaires, BDI-II and WHOQOL-BREF. The software SPSS 11.0 was used to perform the statistic analysis, which includes descriptive (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, maximum and minimum) and inferential statistic analysis (one-way ANOVA, post-hoc comparisons by Least Significant Difference and Spearman Rank Order Correlation). The study shows: 1. The preparation accounts for most of the stages of exercise among targt population of the study (44.4%), followed by contemplation (25.7%), action (10.8%) and pre-contemplation (10.7%), and
the last is the maintenance (8.5%); 2. The average score for the depressive symptoms is 9.11 ± 7.50 (63 in total). Most of them are in the normal range (76.7%) and 23.2% show signs of depression; 3. The depressive symptoms demonstrate significant differences (F = 2.65, p = .032) in different stages of exercise, and the average scores for depressive symptoms in maintenance,action and preparation are lower than that for pre-contemplation; 4. In the 4 major domains of the quality of life, the highest average score goes to physical health domain (M = 14.02), followed by social relationships domain (M = 13.55) and environmental domain (M = 13.17), and the lowest goes to psychological domain (M = 12.60); 5. In different stages of exercise, display significant difference in physical health (F = 6.54, p = .000), psychological (F
= 4.55, p = .001), social relationships (F = 4.06, p = .003) and environmental domain (F = 7.16, p = .000) of the quality of life, and the average scores of physical health, psychological, social relationships and environmental domain
in maintenance, action and preparation stages are far higher than those in precontemplation stage. Also, the average scores of physical health, psychological, social relationships and environmental domain in maintenance are higher than those in contemplation; 6. The stages of exercise find positive correlation with the physical health (r = .17, p = .000), psychological (r = .14, p = .000), social relationships (r = .13, p = .001) and environmental domain (r
= .18, p = .000) of the quality of life; the stages of exercise are in a negative correlation with the scores of depressive symptoms (r = -.08, p = .025); and the depressive symptoms are in a negative correlation with the physical health (r = -.44, p = .000), psychological (r = -.56, p = .000), social relationships (r = -.35, p = .000) and environmental domain (r = -.35, p = .000) of the quality of
life. It is recommended that the nursing schools should pay more attention to the exercise problem among college nursing female students and create a campus that exercise becomes part of life in order to promote the quality of life for these female students and to reduce the depressive symptoms.
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