Awareness of lifestyle-related cancer risk factors and health promoting behaviours among nurses in Malaysia
Aims and objectives: To assess the awareness of lifestyle-related cancer risk factors and health-promoting behaviors among nurses in Malaysia. Background: The essence of nursing is caring. Nurses are known for taking care of others at the cost of their own health. Lack of self-care among nurses c...
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my.um.eprints.218502020-03-20T04:05:14Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/21850/ Awareness of lifestyle-related cancer risk factors and health promoting behaviours among nurses in Malaysia Tong, S.W. Chui, Ping Lei Tang, L.Y. Chong, M.C. Zaini, N.H. Ahmad, N.Z. R Medicine (General) RT Nursing Specialties in nursing Aims and objectives: To assess the awareness of lifestyle-related cancer risk factors and health-promoting behaviors among nurses in Malaysia. Background: The essence of nursing is caring. Nurses are known for taking care of others at the cost of their own health. Lack of self-care among nurses can lead to compassion fatigue, errors on the job, personal health problems and general disdain for life. The nurses' self-care starts with the awareness of modifiable health risk factors and their behaviors in promoting health. Design: A descriptive cross-sectional design. Methods: A total of 357 participants completed the questionnaire in a tertiary referral hospital. The awareness of cancer risk factors was measured based on twenty-nine established lifestyle factors. The health-promoting behaviors were evaluated by the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II. Results: Almost half of the participants are overweight and obese. Awareness among the six clearly established lifestyle-related cancer risk factors showed alcohol gamering the highest number of participants, followed by cured meats, overweight, high red meat diets, low vegetables, and fruit diets, and insufficient physical activity. 37.7% and 47.4% of the participants reported low and moderate levels of health-promoting behavior respectively. The highest mean score reported in the spiritual growth subscale and the lowest in the physical activity subscale. Conclusion: Lifestyle-related cancer risk factors such as overweight, high red meat diets, low vegetables/fruit diets, and insufficient physical activity were not prioritized by the nurses. Although almost half of the nurses reported moderate levels of health-promoting behavior, it is worth noting that the nurses reported of the physical activity subscale to be the least. Relevance to clinical practice: The findings have provided a useful insight into the current health behaviors of nurses and may serve well as an important indicator as to where education and supportive services should target their focus. 2019-08-07 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.um.edu.my/21850/1/Chui%20Ping%20Lei%20-%20Conference%20paper.pdf Tong, S.W. and Chui, Ping Lei and Tang, L.Y. and Chong, M.C. and Zaini, N.H. and Ahmad, N.Z. (2019) Awareness of lifestyle-related cancer risk factors and health promoting behaviours among nurses in Malaysia. In: International Council of Nurses Congress 2019, 27 June-1 July 2019, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. (Submitted) |
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Aims and objectives: To assess the awareness of lifestyle-related cancer risk factors and health-promoting behaviors among nurses in Malaysia.
Background: The essence of nursing is caring. Nurses are known for taking care of others at the cost of their own health. Lack of self-care among nurses can lead to compassion fatigue, errors on the job, personal health problems and general disdain for life. The nurses' self-care starts with the awareness of modifiable health risk factors and their behaviors in promoting health.
Design: A descriptive cross-sectional design.
Methods: A total of 357 participants completed the questionnaire in a tertiary referral hospital. The awareness of cancer risk factors was measured based on twenty-nine established lifestyle factors. The health-promoting behaviors were evaluated by the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II.
Results: Almost half of the participants are overweight and obese. Awareness among the six clearly established lifestyle-related cancer risk factors showed alcohol gamering the highest number of participants, followed by cured meats, overweight, high red meat diets, low vegetables, and fruit diets, and insufficient physical activity. 37.7% and 47.4% of the participants reported low and moderate levels of health-promoting behavior respectively. The highest mean score reported in the spiritual growth subscale and the lowest in the physical activity subscale.
Conclusion: Lifestyle-related cancer risk factors such as overweight, high red meat diets, low vegetables/fruit diets, and insufficient physical activity were not prioritized by the nurses. Although almost half of the nurses reported moderate levels of health-promoting behavior, it is worth noting that the nurses reported of the physical activity subscale to be the least.
Relevance to clinical practice: The findings have provided a useful insight into the current health behaviors of nurses and may serve well as an important indicator as to where education and supportive services should target their focus. |
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Awareness of lifestyle-related cancer risk factors and health promoting behaviours among nurses in Malaysia |
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