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Service Enhancement Presentations HOSPITAL AUTHORITY CONVENTION 2016

F7.2 Committed and Happy Staff 13:15 Room 421

Factors Affecting Perceived Health and Wellness of Nursing Students at Hospital Authority
Cheng TW
School of General Nursing, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong

Introduction

Committed and happy staff is defined as perceived health and wellness that motivates staff to work. Health and wellness
leads to happy staff who have increased control in their daily work. This study explored the present state of health and
wellness of nursing students as novice nurses (Benner, 1984), and evaluated the factors affecting their health and wellness
perception.

Objectives

(1) To explore whether perceived health and wellness of staff is correlated to committed and happy staff; and (2) to evaluate
the factors affecting health and wellness perception of nursing students.

Methodology

Perceived health and wellness were measured by inventory of wellness status key (Edlin, Golanty & Brown, 2010). These
included six categories including stress coping, nutritional state, environmental health, fitness and body care, emotional
health, and medical self-responsibility. Each category contains 10 questions. Respondents were required to complete the
questionnaire to measure perceived health and wellness. They scored each question if the statement was: always true (5),
frequently true (4), occasionally true (3), seldom true (2), or never true (1). Convenient sampling method was adopted. 197
nursing students were consented to provide feedback after explanation and the questionnaires were collected. Respondents
rate was 71%, n=140. Statistical Package of Social Sciences, SPSS, version 20 was used for analysis. Descriptive statistics
was performed by t-test for each factor. The significant level was p<0.05, with 80% level of confidence. Correlation between
two factors in the wellness status key was performed by two-tailed Pearson correlation test, significant at the p<0.01 level.

Results

Students’ overall health and wellness was fair (34.6 ± 3.3). In each category, students were good at stress coping (35.7 ±
3.9) and environmental health (42.0 ± 4.2), fair at emotional health (34.9 ± 4.6) and medical self-responsibility (34.1 ± 4.5).
Nutritional state (30.8 ± 5.3), fitness and body care (29.1 ± 5.1) needed improvement. In factor analysis, stress coping was
significantly correlated to emotional health (Pearson correlation r=0.59). Nutritional state was correlated to fitness and body
care (Pearson correlation r=0.55). Environmental health was correlated to medical self-responsibility (Pearson correlation
r=0.50). Correlation was significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

Conclusion Wednesday, 4 May

In this study, perceived health and wellness of staff and committed and happy staff was correlated. Nursing students had fair
health and wellness perception. They demonstrated strength in stress coping and environmental health.

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