英文摘要 |
The purposes of this study were to investigate the health promoting lifestyle and quality of life as well as their relationships among nurses. A cross-sectional study was performed. Nurses of 623, who were convenience sampled from the nursing department of one university in central Taiwan. The results showed: (1) The mean score of health promoting lifestyle was 1.79 (range from 0~3 point). Among the six dimensions, the score of interpersonal support was the highest and physical activity was the worst. The total score of quality of life was 48.8 (range from 16~80). Among the four dimensions, social relationship had the highest score, and physical health had the lowest. (2) Nurses who were married, had children, had religion, graduated from nursing vocational school, were staff nurses, serviced in medical center or primary clinics, had longer tenure, presented more healthier promotion lifestyle. Besides, nurses who were married, had children, living with nuclear family or three generations family, serviced in primary clinic, were staff nurses or head nurses, had yearly salary above NT 500,000, had longer tenure, had managers’ support, and had better health promoting lifestyle, presented better quality of life. (3) There were significant positive correlations between health promoting lifestyle and quality of life. According to the results, we suggest that managers should build an accessible environment to promote staff’s health, then the nurse not only can be a role model of the patient, but also can enhance nurse’ quality of life and the competitiveness of hospitals. |