Relationship Between Health-Promoting Lifestyle and Body Mass Indexin Male Nurses Based on Demographic Variables

摘要

Behaviors such as an appropriate diet, physical activities, health responsivenesssuch as attending diagnoses and treatment recommendations, preventing from knownhealth risks such as smoking, allocating time to rest and peace and managingstress are related to health-promoting lifestyles (HPLs). The objective of thecurrent study was to determine the relationship between HPL and body mass index(BMI) of male nurses based on demographic variables. A descriptive correlationsurvey was conducted among 108 male nurses using the nonprobability samplingtechnique. Data were gathered through a questionnaire consisting of two parts:demographic characteristics and Pender’s health promotion questionnaire. Datawere analyzed by presenting measures, mean, standard deviation, independentt-test, Pearson’s coefficient correlation, and one-wayanalysis of variance (ANOVA), using SPSS version 22. The mean score for malenurses’ HPL was good (3.13). The highest mean was from spiritual growth (3.48)and the lowest was from physical activity (2.69). Approximately 24.07%participants were overweight and obese. The mean of HPL in normal-weight peoplewas better than that of obese ones. Participants did not pay much attention totheir family’s health-promoting behaviors. They also were exposed tooccupational hazards, including psychological (47.2%), ergonomic (21.7%),physical (20.8%), and biological hazards (10.4%). There was no significantrelationship between age (p = .14), educational level(p = .95), marital status (p = .32), jobexperiences (p = .17), and HPL variables. As health providers,nurses should both provoke patients to attain their health and to strive tomaintain and sustain their own health, especially for obesity prevention. Fromsociety’s perspective, a nurse is one who knows more and acts better; therefore,paying attention to nurses’ HPL is a professional and social expectation.