BMI, physical inactivity, cigarette and alcohol consumption in female nursing students: a 5-year comparison

BMC Medical Education

Joachim Kugler¹  Jörg Klewer²  Katharina von Lindeman¹  Franziska Lehmann¹ 

[1] Department of Public Health, Dresden Medical School, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany;Department of Public Health and Health Care Management, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Zwickau, Germany

关键词: Physical activity;    Body mass index;    Cigarettes;    Alcohol;    Health promotion;    Nursing students;   

Others  :  865445
DOI  :  10.1186/1472-6920-14-82

 received in 2013-11-05, accepted in 2014-03-14,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Nursing staff are often involved in counseling patients with regard to health behavior. Although care promoting healthy lifestyle choices is included in the curriculum of nursing students in Germany, several studies of nursing students have reported a high prevalence of unhealthy behavior. This paper focuses on the behavior of female nursing students with regard to body mass index (BMI), physical activity, and cigarette and alcohol consumption. It describes trends through the comparison of results from 2008 and 2013.

Methods

Data was collected in two waves at a regional medical training college. First, 301 nursing students were asked to fill out a 12 page questionnaire on health behavior in 2008. The questioning was repeated in 2013 with 316 participating nursing students using the previous questionnaire.

Results

259 female nursing students completed the questionnaire in 2013. 31.6% of them were either overweight or obese, 28.5% exercised less than once a week, 42.9% smoked between 10 and 20 cigarettes a day and 72.6% drank alcohol, wherefrom 19.7% consumed alcohol in risky quantities. In comparison to the data of 266 female nursing students from 2008, there were significant differences in the BMI and alcohol consumption: The percentage of overweight and obese students and the percentage of alcohol consumers at risk increased significantly.

Conclusions

Health behavior of female nursing students is often inadequate especially in regard to weight and cigarette and alcohol consumption. Strategies are required to promote healthy lifestyle choices.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Lehmann et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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