Background:
From adolescents transitioning into professional healthcare team members, nursing students need to face different kinds of challenges during their journey of nursing study. Are nursing ...students ready and prepared to take care of themselves before taking care of others?
Aim:
Few studies were found on the holistic health of nurses in Macao. This study aims to explore the health status of a group of first-year undergraduate nursing students and to investigate whether a holistic health practice program can enhance their holistic health, self-esteem, and self-efficacy after they participate in the program.
Methods:
A randomized control study was used. Students in both the experimental and control groups filled in an online pre-test questionnaire, which consisted of some demographic information and the following measurement tools including, the Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile-II (HPLP-II), the Self-Esteem Scale (ESTEEM), and the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES). The experimental participants had to undergo an additional 6-sessions program on holistic health practice. After the intervention, all participants in both groups were invited to complete an online post-test questionnaire, which was the same as the one used in pre-study.
Results:
Results showed that participants’ physical activity was the lowest score in 6 domains, followed by their health responsibility. On the other hand, their spiritual growth scored the highest. The study found that participants who had attended the holistic health practice program had significantly enhanced their holistic health, self-esteem, and self-efficacy.
Conclusion:
This study provided some ground data of the holistic health status of nursing students in Macao. It also demonstrated that the Holistic Health Practice Program is effective in promoting holistic health, self-esteem, and self-efficacy among junior nursing students.
Self-efficacy is regarded as a significant factor in self-concept, motivational theories, and health-related behaviors, and can seriously influence one's level of performance. The current article ...seeks to determine the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES) among substance abusers.
The research method is descriptive and adopts a validation approach. 261 individuals (47 females and 214 males) were selected among the substance abusers who referred to Kermanshah Farabi Therapeutic Educational Center in 2017 in an accessible procedure, and the subjects completed the GSE Scale and AWARE (Advanced WArning of RElapse) Questionnaire-Revised Form. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, Cronbach's alpha coefficient, correlation coefficient, and divergent validity were used for data analysis.
The mean and standard deviation of the GSE score of the addicts was 25.79 ± 8.54. The findings corroborated the single-factor structure of the GSE Scale among substance abusers. This factor explained 0.67% of the total variance of the GSE Scale. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was obtained to be 0.94. The results showed that the correlation between the GSE Scale and AWARE Questionnaire was −0.51, and was significant at p < 0.01.
Given that the results showed that the GSE Scale has sufficient validity and reliability among substance abusers, it seems that this tool can be used to screen GSE screening among addicts.
The passage from adolescence to young adulthood introduces many challenges and chances aimed at promoting independence, financial self-sufficiency, assumption of responsibilities and separation from ...parents. Literature shows that in the continuum between these two phases of life, many factors intervene, producing significant differentiations.
This study considered three dimensions - well-being, measured through the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM); spontaneity, measured through the Spontaneity Assessment Inventory-Revised (SAI-R); and self-efficacy, measured through the General Self-Efficacy scale (GSE). The study involved two groups of Italian participants: 495 adolescents, aged between 13 and 19 years, selected at a high school; and 368 young adults, aged between 18 and 30 years, recruited by snowball sampling.
Results of confirmatory factor analysis for each instrument in each group indicate the validity of the three instruments for both age groups. No significant differences were found between adolescents and young adults on total or subtotal scores of the CORE-OM, except for the risk factor. Conversely, the mean scores obtained with SAI-R and GSE were very different between adolescents and young adults.
The results of path analysis show a significant mediation of spontaneity in the link between self-efficacy and all specific psychological distress domains for adolescents. Instead, there is a significant mediation of spontaneity between self-efficacy and all specific psychological distress domains except the risk domain for young adults.
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