Promoting healthy lifestyles among nurse trainees: Perceptions on enablers and barriers to dietary and physical activity behaviours

Doegah, Phidelia Theresa; Acquah, Evelyn

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0270353

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“…Combining questions from those studies, AlQuaiz et al conducted a research study to measure the obstacles to physical activity among participants aged between 30 and 75 years 68 . Phidelia et al assessed physical activity barriers among nurse trainees 69 . Moreover, the reliability value was assessed as 84% when we did the pilot study.…”

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Perceived barriers to maintain physical activity and its association to mental health status of Bangladeshi adults: a quantile regression approach

Hasan

Hawlader

Jahan

2023

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Insufficient physical activity and unhealthy lifestyle preferences have been significant concerns for decades. This study aimed to determine the perceived barriers to maintaining physical activity among adults in three major cities of Bangladesh and their association with mental health status. This is a cross-sectional study where 400 participants were selected using a multistage sampling technique. Twenty municipal wards were randomly selected from three cities, followed by a convenient selection of the study participants from each ward. Questionnaires about perceived physical activity barriers were developed based on previously published literature. The DASS-21 scale assessed the mental health status of the study participants. Descriptive statistics were applied to narrate the baseline characteristics of the respondents. The Shapiro–Wilk test was used to check the normality of the perceived physical activity scores. Quantile regression analysis was applied to model the physical activity barrier scores depending on several covariates. Five quantiles were used: the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th. A p-value less than 0.05 was considered significant for hypothesis testing. Among the respondents, 68.50% were male, half of them were married, 68.0% belonged to nuclear families, 48.0% completed graduate level education, 34.25% were service holders, one-third of the respondent's working hours were 6–8 h, and 19.50% belongs to the overweight and obese groups. Poor traffic and construction work near the road (60.30%) was seen as the most significant barrier to physical activity. Over half of the respondents stated that lack of time, facilities, and expenses hinder physical activity. Mental health status reported mild to extremely severe levels of depression (32%), anxiety (47%), and stress (42.50%), respectively. Significant associations between the perceived physical activity scores and gender, family type, occupation, income, BMI, anxiety, and depression were obtained. Ensuring a safe environment, facilitating accessibility and availability of low-cost exercise facilities, improving road and traffic conditions, and providing appropriate mental health counseling may help to mitigate physical activity barriers.

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Perceived barriers to maintain physical activity and its association to mental health status of Bangladeshi adults: a quantile regression approach

Hasan

Hawlader

Jahan

2023

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“…Promoting a healthy lifestyle is important to protect patients against non-communicable diseases and obesity ( 81 ).…”

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Nurse-led lifestyle counseling in Polish primary care: the effect of current health status and perceived barriers

Znyk,

Kostrzewski,

Kaleta

2024

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionOur study included counseling on diet and physical activity, smoking, e-cigarette use, and alcohol consumption. The aim was to examine the correlates of counseling provided by primary care nurses with the health status/health behaviors of nurses and the barriers in the advice provided.Materials and methodsIn 2022, we conducted a cross-sectional survey among 331 nurses employed in the primary care sector in Lodz. The questionnaire consisted of three sections: characteristics of the patient population receiving treatment and provided with healthy lifestyle counseling by nurses, barriers to the process of assessing, controlling, and guiding patients, and health status/health behaviors of nurses.ResultsEighty percent of the nurses in our study provided advice on diet and physical activity to primary care patients. Over 70% of the survey participants performed minimal anti-smoking interventions forsmokers, 67.7% for alcohol drinkers, and 56.8% for e-cigarette users. The correlates of counseling in the field of diet and physical activity turned out to be the knowledge and skills, which enabled nurses to provide advice (OR = 2.57, p < 0.01). The correlates of the conducted minimal anti-smoking interventions in smoking patients were: subjective assessment of overweight and obesity in nurses, knowledge and skills in conducting counseling (OR = 1.92, p < 0.05), and measuring body weight, height and BMI (OR = 2.18, p < 0.01). Among the three most common barriers identified by the nurses in the process of assessing, monitoring, and guiding patients were the opinion that patients are not interested in improving their diet, physical activity, and weight loss (60.7%), lack of time (51.4%), as well as the belief that patients find it too difficult to change their current habits (54.1%).ConclusionThe results of our survey indicate that nurses’ participation in healthy lifestyle counseling in adult patients is unsatisfactory. Interventions in primary care should be designed considering the specific obstacles nurses may face in leading healthy lifestyles. Further training of nursing staff is required to increase their knowledge on healthy lifestyles.

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A balancing act–finding one´s way to health and well-being: A qualitative analysis of interviews with Swedish university students on lifestyle and behavior change

Åsberg

Eldh²,

Löf³

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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Introduction Unhealthy lifestyle behaviors such as unhealthy diets, low physical activity levels, smoking, and harmful alcohol consumption are common in student populations, which constitute a large group of young adults. As unhealthy lifestyle behaviors are associated with future disease and premature mortality, most commonly from cardiovascular disease and cancers, it is from a public health perspective important to understand such behaviors in young adult populations. The objective of this study was to investigate university students’ experiences of health, health-related behaviors, and the barriers and facilitators for behavior change in terms of health promotion in everyday life. Materials and methods This qualitative study was conducted at a middle-sized university in Sweden. Students represented different faculties and were recruited via non-probability convenience sampling using means such as the snowball technique and social media. The 21 interviews with 24 students, individually or in groups, were transcribed verbatim prior to a qualitative analysis inspired by phenomenological hermeneutics. Results Our interviews showed that university student life is associated with new health-related challenges, for example study-related stress and procrastination implies a lack of energy to engage in healthy routines such as physical activity, and a limited budget affects food choices. While adapting to a new context, students explore personal strategies such as taking on changes in manageable steps, seeking social support, and avoiding disturbances to maintaining health and quality of life. Conclusions Experiences of health while becoming and being a university student can be described as a transition–a balancing act of walking a slack line–during which students seek to manage a healthy balance. In the past, interventions have to some extent been designed to address university students’ behaviors; however, our study aids an understanding of their needs. Future interventions should highlight the transitions they are experiencing and the challenges of student life.

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Promoting healthy lifestyles among nurse trainees: Perceptions on enablers and barriers to dietary and physical activity behaviours

Cited by 4 publications

References 24 publications

Perceived barriers to maintain physical activity and its association to mental health status of Bangladeshi adults: a quantile regression approach

Perceived barriers to maintain physical activity and its association to mental health status of Bangladeshi adults: a quantile regression approach

Nurse-led lifestyle counseling in Polish primary care: the effect of current health status and perceived barriers

A balancing act–finding one´s way to health and well-being: A qualitative analysis of interviews with Swedish university students on lifestyle and behavior change

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