| Summary: | 碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 護理學研究所 === 99 === Nurses are health care providers and the health-promoting behavior of nurses would affect the quality of care.
The purposes of this study were to understand the status of health-promoting behavior and to detect the correlation between social demographic factors and the implementation of health-promoting behavior among nurses who took post-RN Baccalaureate program. A total of 350 nurses were recruited and asked to completed the structured questionnaire anonymously. Collected data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistical methods.
The results of the study showed that: (1) the standardized score of the whole scale of health-promoting behavior was 48.72, which was a rather low score. The highest score was found in 〝Social support behavior subscale〞which was 66.04, and the lowest was 26.69 in the 〝Exercise behavior subscale〞. (2) The participant nurses who were older, had better self-perceived health status, were third-year students, believed in Buddhism and Taoism and work on day shift were more likely to have better implementing health-promoting behavior. (3) The significant positive correlation was found between implementation of health-promoting behavior and self-perceived health status.
According to the results of this study, nurses who took post-RN Baccalaureate program should enhance their health-promoting behavior. Moreover, schools should also increase PE (physical education) or health promotion courses appropriately to improve students’ health-promoting behavior.
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