Sleeping Hours and Health Promotion Behavior of Clinical Nurses whose Perceived Health-condition is Poor

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to measure the sleeping hours of clinical nurses who perceive to have poor health and to find the influencing variables on health promotion behavior. The subjects were 177 nurses working in university hospital in Seoul and the survey was performed during 2015. 7. 24~8. 7. The data were analyzed by SPSS 21.0. The average of age, career, working hours per week and sleeping hours per day was 34.35, 11.76 years, 45.66 hours and 6.35 hours respectively. It meant that they are not that young, expert, have overtime and short sleeping hours. Nurses whose career fewer than 5 years had more sleeping hours than 6-10 years and same as 11-20 years than 21 years. 4 factors were extracted in the health promotion behavior – ‘Active health-management’, ‘Nutrition management’, ‘Satisfactory interpersonal relationship’ and ‘Disease prevention’. Sleeping hours were unrelated with these variables. Exercise frequency explained ‘Active health-management’ 52.6%. Age and exercise frequency explained ‘Nutrition management’ 35.7%. Alcohol drinking frequency explained ‘Disease prevention’ 5.1%. Exercise frequency explained ‘Satisfactory interpersonal relationship’ 1.7%, but it was not significant. Therefore, it is desirable to improve the level of nurses’ health promotion behavior by building ward’s ambience to increase exercise frequency.